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NOWHERE-ZERO $3$-FLOWS IN CAYLEY GRAPHS OF ORDER $8p$

Part of: Graph theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2023

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JUNYANG ZHANG
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, PR China e-mail: jyzhang@cqnu.edu.cn
HANG ZHOU*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, PR China
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e-mail: zhouuuhang@163.com
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Abstract

It is proved that Tutte’s $3$-flow conjecture is true for Cayley graphs on groups of order $8p$ where p is an odd prime.

Keywords

nowhere-zero 3-flowCayley graph

MSC classification

Primary: 05C21: Flows in graphs
Secondary: 05C25: Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.)

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Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 110 , Issue 1 , August 2024 , pp. 1 - 11
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

The first author was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing (CSTB2022NSCQ- MSX1054).

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