Decomposing an eulerian graph into cycles.

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Author(s): Hajós, G.
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Posted by: fhavet
on: March 4th, 2013
Conjecture   Every simple eulerian graph on $ n $ vertices can be decomposed into at most $ \frac{1}{2}(n-1) $ cycles.

This conjecture is tight because a complete graph on $ 2k+1 $ vertices cannot be covered by less than $ k $ cycles.

There is a similar conjecture about decomposition of a connected graph into paths.

Bibliography

* [L] L. Lovász, On covering of graphs. In Theory of Graphs (Proc. Colloq., Tihany, 1966), 231--236. Academic Press, New York, 1968.


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