On the Connectivity of \((4; g)\)-Cages

Baoguang Xu1, Ping Wang2, Jianfang Wang1
1Institute of Applied Mathematics Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing, P.R. of China, 100080
2Department. of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada, B2G 2W5

Abstract

A \((k;g)\)-graph is a \(k\)-regular graph with girth \(g\). A \((k; g)\)-cage is a \((k; g)\)-graph with the least possible number of vertices. In this paper, we prove that all \((4; g)\)-cages are \(4\)-connected, a special case of the conjecture about \((k; g)\)-cages’ connectivity made by H.L. Fu \(et\; al [1]\).