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Homomorphisms of Cayley graphs and Cycle Double Covers

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2017

Abstract

We study the following conjecture of Matt DeVos: If there is a graph homomorphism from Cayley graph $\Cay(M, B)$ to another Cayley graph $\Cay(M', B')$ then every graph with $(M,B)$-flow has $(M',B')$-flow. This conjecture was originally motivated by the flow-tension duality.

We show that a natural strengthening of this conjecture does not hold in all cases but we conjecture that it still holds for an interesting subclass of them and we prove a partial result in this direction. We also show that the original conjecture implies the existence of oriented cycle double cover with a small number of cycles.