The critical-snark Fulkerson-cover conjecture
Let be a critical snark, let a hexagon be a -cycle, and let a hexagon be double-core when it is a double-core hexagon for a -array of perfect matchings. An optimal -array is a -array leaving the minimum possible number of uncovered edges. Critical-snark Fulkerson-cover conjecture. Every hexagon in is double-core. In particular, every optimal -array of perfect matchings extends to a Fulkerson cover. The claim is motivated by the fact that a double-core hexagon yields a Fulkerson cover; its general validity is left open.
References
Primary source
Ján Karabáš, Edita Máčajová, Roman Nedela and Martin Škoviera, “Cubic graphs with colouring defect 3”, arXiv:2308.13639 (2023).
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