Planar Circular Flow Conjecture

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Let kk be a positive integer, and let GG be a planar graph. A circular pq\frac{p}{q}-flow of GG is a flow (D,f)(D,f) such that every edge eE(G)e\in E(G) satisfies

qf(e)pq.q\leqslant |f(e)|\leqslant p-q.

Planar Circular Flow Conjecture. Every 4k4k-edge-connected planar graph admits a circular (2+1k)(2+\frac{1}{k})-flow.

This conjecture is motivated by Jaeger's conjecture that every 4k4k-edge-connected graph admits a circular (2+1k)(2+\frac{1}{k})-flow, which was disproved for all k3k\geqslant 3 by Han, Li, Wu, and Zhang. The cited counterexamples are nonplanar, so the planar case remains the relevant unresolved question.

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Daniel W. Cranston, Jiaao Li, Bo Su, Zhouningxin Wang and Chunyan Wei, “Orientations of 10-Edge-Connected Planar Multigraphs and Applications”, arXiv:2603.24292 (2026).

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