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Mac Lane’s Theorem for 3-Graphs

In: The Foundations of Topological Graph Theory

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  • C. Paul Bonnington

    (University of Auckland, Department of Mathematics)

  • Charles H. C. Little

    (Massey University, Department of Mathematics)

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In this chapter, we give our first characterisation of planar graphs. This characterisation is due to Mac Lane. The basic idea is that a 2-connected graph is planar if and only if there is a family of circuits enjoying properties that we intuitively expect the boundaries of faces to have. The work in this chapter is in the more general setting of 3-graphs. Mac Lane’s theorem is deduced as a corollary. We conclude the chapter by obtaining another criterion due to Whitney.

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  • C. Paul Bonnington & Charles H. C. Little, 1995. "Mac Lane’s Theorem for 3-Graphs," Springer Books, in: The Foundations of Topological Graph Theory, chapter 6, pages 83-96, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4612-2540-9_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-2540-9_6
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