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Markström Graph


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The Markström graph is a cubic planar graph on 24 vertices which lacks cycles of length 4 and 8 but contains cycles of length 16. (In particular, it contains cycles of lengths 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9-24.)

The Markström graph is implemented in the Wolfram Language as GraphData["MarkstroemGraph"].

Markström (2004) found four cubic graphs on 24 vertices in which the only power-of-two graph cycle length is 16. The Markström graph is the only planar graph among the four. It is therefore not a counterexample to the Erdős-Gyárfás conjecture, but is a small extremal example related to the conjecture.

The Markström graph is a C_3 cyclic group graph.


See also

Erdős-Gyárfás Conjecture, Graph Cycle

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References

House of Graphs. "Markstroem Graph." https://houseofgraphs.org/graphs/51419.Markström, K. "Extremal Graphs for Some Problems on Cycles in Graphs." Congr. Numer. 171, 179-192, 2004.

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Markström Graph

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Markström Graph." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MarkstroemGraph.html

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