Negami's Planar Cover Conjecture

Let GG be a connected finite simple graph. A finite planar cover of GG is a finite graph that covers GG in the graph-theoretic sense, with the covering graph planar. Negami's Planar Cover Conjecture. The graph GG has a finite planar cover if and only if it can be embedded on the projective plane. The sufficiency is clear, while the necessity remains open; the rotation-compatible version has already been proved.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Shohei Koizumi, Yusuke Suzuki and Kensuke Tamura, “Another proof of the result on rotation compatible planar covers”, arXiv:2606.27703 (2026).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2412.10023, arXiv:2412.19560, arXiv:1108.0064, arXiv:math/0612342.

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.