Frank number and nowhere-zero flows on graphs

05/03/2023
by   Jan Goedgebeur, et al.
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An edge e of a graph G is called deletable for some orientation o if the restriction of o to G-e is a strong orientation. In 2021, Hörsch and Szigeti proposed a new parameter for 3-edge-connected graphs, called the Frank number, which refines k-edge-connectivity. The Frank number is defined as the minimum number of orientations of G for which every edge of G is deletable in at least one of them. They showed that every 3-edge-connected graph has Frank number at most 7 and that in case these graphs are also 3-edge-colourable graphs the parameter is at most 3. Here we strengthen both results by showing that every 3-edge-connected graph has Frank number at most 4 and that every graph which is 3-edge-connected and 3-edge-colourable graph has Frank number 2. The latter also confirms a conjecture by Barát and Blázsik. Furthermore, we prove two sufficient conditions for cubic graphs to have Frank number 2 and use them in an algorithm to computationally show that the Petersen graph is the only cyclically 4-edge-connected cubic graph up to 36 vertices having Frank number greater than 2.

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