In 1996, Reed proved that the domination number, γ(G), of every n-vertex graph G with minimum degree at least 3 is at most 3n/8 and conjectured that γ(H) ≤ dn/3e for every connected 3-regular (cubic) n-vertex graph H. In [1] this conjecture was disproved by presenting a connected cubic graph G on 60 vertices with γ(G) = 21 and a sequence {Gk} ∞ k=1 of connected cubic graphs with limk→∞ γ(Gk) |V...

An even 2-factor is one such that each cycle of length. A 4- regular graph G 4-edge-colorable if and only has two edge-disjoint 2- factors whose union contains all edges in G. It known the line a cubic without 3-edge-coloring not 4-edge-colorable. Hence, we are interested whether those graphs have an 2-factor. Bonisoli Bonvicini proved connected with number 2-factor, perfect matching [Even cycl...

Let p be a prime. It was shown by Folkman (J. Combin. Theory 3 (1967) 215) that a regular edge-transitive graph of order 2p or 2p is necessarily vertex-transitive. In this paper an extension of his result in the case of cubic graphs is given. It is proved that, with the exception of the Gray graph on 54 vertices, every cubic edge-transitive graph of order 2p is vertex-transitive. c © 2003 Elsev...

For a group T and a subset S of T , the bi-Cayley graph BCay(T, S) of T with respect to S is the bipartite graph with vertex set T×{0, 1} and edge set {{(g, 0), (sg, 1)} | g ∈ T, s ∈ S}. In this paper, we investigate cubic bi-Cayley graphs of finite nonabelian simple groups. We give several sufficient or necessary conditions for a bi-Cayley graph to be semisymmetric, and construct several infin...

The problem of establishing the number of perfect matchings necessary to cover the edge-set of a cubic bridgeless graph is strictly related to a famous conjecture of Berge and Fulkerson. In this paper we prove that deciding whether this number is at most 4 for a given cubic bridgeless graph is NP-complete. We also construct an infinite family F of snarks (cyclically 4-edge-connected cubic graph...

It is well known that a prime link diagram corresponds to a signed plane graph without cut vertices (Kauffman, 1989). In this paper, we present a new relation between prime links and cubic 3-polytopes. Let S be the set of links such that each L ∈ S has a diagram whose corresponding signed plane graph is the graph of a cubic 3-polytope. We show that all nontrivial prime links, except (2, n)-toru...

Let p be a prime and n a positive integer. In [J. Austral. Math. Soc. 81 (2006), 153–164], Feng and Kwak showed that if p > 5 then every connected cubic symmetric graph of order 2p is a Cayley graph. Clearly, this is not true for p = 5 because the Petersen graph is non-Cayley. But they conjectured that this is true for p = 3. This conjecture is confirmed in this paper. Also, for the case when p...

Tutte made the conjecture in 1966 that every 2-connected cubic graph not containing the Petersen graph as a minor is 3-edge-colourable. The conjecture is still open, but we show that it is true in general provided it is true for two special kinds of cubic graphs that are almost planar.

We first prove that for any fixed k a cubic graph with few short cycles contains a Kk-minor. This is a direct generalisation of a result on girth by Thomassen. We then use this theorem to show that for any fixed k a random cubic graph contains a Kk-minor asymptotically almost surely.