98-01-09.ley-pfs

Minimal Cycle Bases of Outerplanar Graphs

Josef Leydold and Peter F. Stadler


Abstract

2-connected outerplanar graphs have a unique minimal cycle basis with length 2|E|-|V|. They are the only Hamiltonian graphs with a cycle basis of this length.


Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C38 (paths and cycles), 92D20 (protein sequences, DNA sequences)

Keywords: Minimal Cycle Basis, Outerplanar Graphs


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