Title
Characterizing 3-connected planar graphs and graphic matroids
Abstract
A well-known result of Tutte states that a 3-connected graph G is planar if and only if every edge of G is contained in exactly two induced non-separating circuits. Bixby and Cunningham generalized Tutte's result to binary matroids. We generalize both of these results and give new characterizations of both 3-connected planar graphs and 3-connected graphic matroids. Our main result determines when a natural necessary condition for a binary matroid to be graphic is also sufficient. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 64: 165–174, 2010
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1002/jgt.v64:2
Journal of Graph Theory
Keywords
Field
DocType
connected graph,planar graph
Tutte 12-cage,Matroid,Topology,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Tutte polynomial,Clique-sum,Polyhedral graph,Nowhere-zero flow,Graphic matroid,Mathematics,Branch-decomposition
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
64
2
0364-9024
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.43
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manoel Lemos18319.44
Talmage James Reid24812.18
Haidong Wu3268.43