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Keywords:
Maximum genus; matching; cycle space
Summary:
In this paper we determine the maximum genus of a graph by using the matching number of the intersection graph of a basis of its cycle space. Our result is a common generalization of a theorem of Glukhov and a theorem of Nebeský .
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