Two computer scientists found — in the unlikeliest of places — just the idea they needed to make a big leap in graph theory. This past October, as Jacob Holm and Eva Rotenberg were thumbing through a ...
If true, the following conjecture of Thomassen [Th81] is a planarity criterion for a special class of graphs that involves only K 5. Recall that a planar graph on n vertices contains at most 3n-6 ...