Paper 1, Section II, I

Graph Theory
Part II, 2014

Show that a graph is bipartite if and only if all of its cycles are of even length.

Show that a bridgeless plane graph is bipartite if and only if all of its faces are of even length.

Let GG be an Eulerian plane graph. Show that the faces of GG can be coloured with two colours so that no two contiguous faces have the same colour. Deduce that it is possible to assign a direction to each edge of GG in such a way that the edges around each face form a directed cycle.