We explain the main results and proof techniques used in Martin Merker's 2021 paper "Gaps in the cycle spectrum of 3-connected cubic planar graphs", as well as a family of counterexamples to a conjecture of Merker.

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Creator

• Comeau, Leslie M.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-050321-142225
• 21481

Palavra-chave

• cycle spectrum
• graph theory
• mathematical sciences

Advisor

• Servatius, Brigitte

Year

• 2021

Date created

• 2021-05-03

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mathematical Sciences

Rights statement

• In Copyright