Title
Cycle-cocycle partitions and faithful cycle covers for locally finite graphs
Abstract
By a result of Gallai, every finite graph G has a vertex partition into two parts each inducing an element of its cycle space. This fails for infinite graphs if, as usual, the cycle space is defined as the span of the edge sets of finite cycles in G. However, we show that, for the adaptation of the cycle space to infinite graphs recently introduced by Diestel and Kühn (which involves infinite cycles as well as finite ones), Gallai's theorem extends to locally finite graphs. Using similar techniques, we show that if Seymour's faithful cycle cover conjecture is true for finite graphs then it also holds for locally finite graphs when infinite cyles are allowed in the cover, but not otherwise. We also consider extensions to graphs with infinite degrees. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1002/jgt.v50:2
Journal of Graph Theory
Keywords
Field
DocType
locally finite graph,cycle cover,Gallai
Topology,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Indifference graph,Robertson–Seymour theorem,Chordal graph,Pathwidth,Universal graph,1-planar graph,Mathematics,Maximal independent set,Strong perfect graph theorem
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
50
2
0364-9024
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
1.62
2
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
henning bruhn117724.93
Reinhard Diestel245268.24
maya stein38115.65