Quasi-Eulerian Hypergraphs

Amin Bahmanian, Mateja Šajna
2017 Electronic Journal of Combinatorics  
We generalize the notion of an Euler tour in a graph in the following way. An Euler family in a hypergraph is a family of closed walks that jointly traverse each edge of the hypergraph exactly once. An Euler tourthus corresponds to an Euler family with a single component. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an Euler family in an arbitrary hypergraph, and in particular, we show that every 3-uniform hypergraph without cut edges admits an Euler family. Finally, we
more » ... ow that the problem of existence of an Euler family is polynomial on the class of all hypergraphs.This work complements existing results on rank-1 universal cycles and 1-overlap cycles in triple systems, as well as recent results by Lonc and Naroski, who showed that the problem of existence of an Euler tour in a hypergraph is NP-complete.
doi:10.37236/6361 fatcat:4kqzraw3jvbo5ktmm773xwktz4