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Toughness in Graphs – A Survey

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In this survey we have attempted to bring together most of the results and papers that deal with toughness related to cycle structure. We begin with a brief introduction and a section on terminology and notation, and then try to organize the work into a few self explanatory categories. These categories are circumference, the disproof of the 2-tough conjecture, factors, special graph classes, computational complexity, and miscellaneous results as they relate to toughness. We complete the survey with some tough open problems!

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  1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA

    Douglas Bauer

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Durham, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK

    Hajo Broersma

  3. Department of Mathematics, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 95192, USA

    Edward Schmeichel

  4. Center for Combinatorics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, P.R. China

    Hajo Broersma

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Bauer, D., Broersma, H. & Schmeichel, E. Toughness in Graphs – A Survey. Graphs and Combinatorics 22, 1–35 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00373-006-0649-0

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