Berge and Fulkerson conjectured that for each cubic bridgeless graph there are six perfect matchings such that each edge is contained in exactly two of them. Another conjecture due to Berge says that we can cover cubic bridgeless graphs by five perfect matchings. Both conjectures are studied for over forty years. Abreu et al. [2016] introduce a new class of graphs (called treelike snarks) which cannot be covered by less then five perfect matchings. We show that their lower bound on number of perfect matchings is tight. Moreover we prove that a bigger class of cubic bridgeless graphs admits Berge conjecture. Finally, we also show that Berge-Fulkerson conjecture holds for treelike snarks.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:355996 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Slívová, Veronika |
| Contributors | Šámal, Robert, Rollová, Edita |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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