Decomposing a signed graph into rooted circuits
Advances in Combinatorics (2024)
We prove a precise min-max theorem for the following problem. Let $G$ be an Eulerian graph with a specified set of edges $S \subseteq E(G)$, and let $b$ be a vertex of $G$. Then what is the maximum integer $k$ so that the edge-set of $G$ can be partitioned into $k$ non-zero $b$-trails? That is, each trail must begin and end at $b$ and contain an odd number of edges from~$S$. This theorem is motivated by a connection to vertex-minors and yields two conjectures of Máčajová and Škoviera as corollaries.
@article{ADVC_2024_a0,
author = {Rose McCarty},
title = {Decomposing a signed graph into rooted circuits},
journal = {Advances in Combinatorics},
year = {2024},
language = {en},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/ADVC_2024_a0/}
}
Rose McCarty. Decomposing a signed graph into rooted circuits. Advances in Combinatorics (2024). http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/ADVC_2024_a0/