A1.8
Part II, 2002
(i) State and prove a necessary and sufficient condition for a graph to be Eulerian (that is, to have an Eulerian circuit).
Prove that, given any connected non-Eulerian graph , there is an Eulerian graph and a vertex such that .
(ii) Let be a connected plane graph with vertices, edges and faces. Prove that . Deduce that , where is the smallest face size.
The crossing number of a non-planar graph is the minimum number of edgecrossings needed when drawing the graph in the plane. (The crossing of three edges at the same point is not allowed.) Show that if has vertices and edges then . Find .