Journal of Combinatorics

Volume 7 (2016)

Number 2–3

Guest editors: Rong Luo and Cun-Quan Zhang

Distance matching in punctured planar triangulations

Pages: 509 – 530

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/JOC.2016.v7.n2.a15

Authors

R. E. L. Aldred (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand)

Michael D. Plummer (Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.)

Abstract

Distance matching extension with prescribed and proscribed edges in planar triangulations has been previously studied. In the present work, matching extension behavior is investigated when the graph families are slightly more general than triangulations. More particularly, we replace the triangulation hypothesis with the weaker hypotheses that (a) the graph is locally connected and (b) the graph has at most two non-triangular faces. We investigate which distance matching properties enjoyed by triangulations are retained and which are lost.

Published 23 February 2016