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Graphs with even girth and small excess

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

N. L. Biggs
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway College, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
T. Ito
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway College, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX

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Let G be a regular graph with even girth g = 2r ≥ 4 and valency k ≥ 3. It is well known, and easy to prove, that G must have at least n0 = n0(g, k) vertices, where

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1980

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