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A combinatorial proof of a theorem of Tutte‡

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

John H. Halton
John H. Halton
Affiliation:
Applied Mathematics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, Long Island, New York§
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We refer to a beautiful and important result of Tutte(1), in the theory of graphs; that a linear graph G is prime if and only if it contains a set ∑ of vertices, such that u(G∑) > n(∑); where n(∑) is the number of vertices in ∑, G∑ is the graph obtained from G by deleting the star of ∑ (all the vertices of G in ∑, together with all the edges of G meeting vertices of ∑), and u(G∑) is the number of connected components of G∑ having an odd number of vertices.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 62 , Issue 4 , October 1966 , pp. 683 - 684
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1966

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