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    On Determinants and Permanents of Minimally 1-Factorable Cubic Bipartite Graphs

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    A minimally 1-factorable cubic bigraph is a graph in which every 1-factor lies in precisely one 1-factorization. The author investigates determinants and permanents of such graphs and, in particular, proves that the determinant of any minimally 1-factorable cubic bigraph of girth 4 is 0

    Corrigendum to "Graphs and digraphs with all 2--factors isomorphic" [J. of Comb. Th. Ser. B 92, (2) (2004) 395--404]

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    We point out several errors in our article [M. Abreu, R.E.L. Aldred, M. Funk, B. Jackson, D. Labbate, J. Sheehan, Graphs and digraphs with all 2-factor isomorphic, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 92 (2004) 395–404] which were caused by our misquoting of a theorem of C. Thomassen. We also describe how the correct statement of Thomassen’s theorem, together with another of his theorems, can be used to obtain weaker results than those incorrectly stated in our original article

    A construction for a counterexample to the pseudo 2-factor isomorphic graph conjecture

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    A graph GG admiting a 22-factor is \textit{pseudo 22-factor isomorphic} if the parity of the number of cycles in all its 22-factors is the same. In [M. Abreu, A.A. Diwan, B. Jackson, D. Labbate and J. Sheehan. Pseudo 22-factor isomorphic regular bipartite graphs. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 98(2) (2008), 432-444.] some of the authors of this note gave a partial characterisation of pseudo 22-factor isomorphic bipartite cubic graphs and conjectured that K3,3K_{3,3}, the Heawood graph and the Pappus graph are the only essentially 44-edge-connected ones. In [J. Goedgebeur. A counterexample to the pseudo 22-factor isomorphic graph conjecture. Discr. Applied Math., 193 (2015), 57-60.] Jan Goedgebeur computationally found a graph G\mathscr{G} on 3030 vertices which is pseudo 22-factor isomorphic cubic and bipartite, essentially 44-edge-connected and cyclically 66-edge-connected, thus refuting the above conjecture. In this note, we describe how such a graph can be constructed from the Heawood graph and the generalised Petersen graph GP(8,3)GP(8,3), which are the Levi graphs of the Fano 737_3 configuration and the M\"obius-Kantor 838_3 configuration, respectively. Such a description of G\mathscr{G} allows us to understand its automorphism group, which has order 144144, using both a geometrical and a graph theoretical approach simultaneously. Moreover we illustrate the uniqueness of this graph

    On 3-Cut Reductions of Minimally 1-Factorable Cubic Bigraphs

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    AbstractA cubic bigraph G is minimally 1-factorable if every 1-factor lies in precisely one 1-factorization. We characterize 3-bridges of G and prove that the 3-cut reductions of G are still minimally 1-factorable; thus, the open classification problem is reduced to the study of 3-bridge-free minimally 1-factorable cubic bigraphs. Furthermore, we prove that if ab, cd are edges of G such that the graph obtained by twisting them in ad, bc is still minimally 1-factorable, then ab, cd lie in some 3-bridge of G

    Characterizing Minimally 1-factorable r-Regular Bipartite Graphs

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    AbstractThe possibilities for circuits of length 4 to appear together in a cubic bigraph are classified. That has consequences on the structure of minimally 1-factorable regular bigraphs, i.e. those in which each 1-factor lies in precisely one 1-factorization. We characterize minimally 1-factorable cubic bigraphs of girth 4
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