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A Dual form of Kuratowski's Theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Frank Harary
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
William T. Tutte
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo
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The celebrated criterion of Kuratowski [2] for the planarity of a graph G involves the determination of whether G contains a subgraph homeomorphic to K5 or K3, 3 shown in Figure 1.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1965

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