Paul A. Catlin

Paul Allen Catlin ((1948-06-25)June 25, 1948 – (1995-04-20)April 20, 1995) was a mathematician, professor of mathematics who worked in graph theory and number theory. He wrote a significant paper on the series of chromatic numbers and Brooks' theorem, titled Hajós graph coloring conjecture: variations and counterexamples.^[1][2][3]

Career

Originally from Bridgeport, Connecticut, Catlin majored in Mathematics with a B.A. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1970.^[1]

Catlin held a Doctorate in Mathematics degree from Ohio State University. From 1972 to 1973, he was a research and teaching assistant at Ohio State University, where he earned the Master of Science degree in Mathematics.^[1]

In 1976, he went to work at Wayne State University, where he concentrated the research on chromatic numbers and Brooks' theorem. As a result, Catlin published a significant paper in that series: Hajós graph coloring conjecture: variations and counterexamples.,^[1][4] which showed that the conjecture raised by Hugo Hadwiger is further strengthened not only by [math]\displaystyle{ k \le 4 }[/math] but also by [math]\displaystyle{ k \ge 7 }[/math], which led to the joint paper written with Paul Erdős and Béla Bollobás titled Hadwiger's conjecture is true for almost every graph.^[5]

He authored over fifty academic papers in number theory and graph theory. Many of his contributions and collaborations have been published in The Fibonacci Quarterly, in The Journal of Number Theory, in the Journal of Discrete Mathematics, and many other academic publications.^[3] He co-authored scholarly papers with Arthur M. Hobbs,^[6] Béla Bollobás and Paul Erdős,^[5] Hong-Jian Lai, Zheng-Yiao Han, and Yehong Shao,^[6] among others. He also published papers with G. Neil Robertson, with whom he also completed his dissertation thesis in 1976.^[1][7]

Selected publications

• Paul A. Catlin; Hong-Jian Lai; Yehong Shao (2009). "Edge-connectivity and edge-disjoint spanning trees". Discrete Mathematics 309 (5): 1033–1040. doi:10.1016/j.disc.2007.11.056. 
• Paul A. Catlin; Arthur M. Hobbs; Hong-jian Lai (2001). "Graph family operations". Discrete Mathematics 230 (1–3): 71–97. doi:10.1016/S0012-365X(00)00071-6. 
• Paul Catlin; Arthur M. Hobbs; Hong-Jian Lai; Neil Robertson (2001). "Preface: Paul Catlin 1948-1995". Journal of Sound and Vibration. 
• Paul A. Catlin; S. Brownsellt; D. A. Bradley; R. Bragg; J. Carlier (1999). "Proceedings of the First Joint BMES/EMBS Conference. 1999 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (Cat. No.99CH37015)". Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 2. p. 714. doi:10.1109/IEMBS.1999.803869. ISBN 0-7803-5674-8. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1977). "Embedding subgraphs under extremal degree conditions". Congressus Numerantium 19: 136–45. http://www.math.wvu.edu/~hjlai/Pdf/Catlin_Pdf/Catlin08.pdf. 
• Paul A. Catlin; Zheng-yiao Han; Hong-jian Lai (1996). "Graphs without spanning closed trails". Discrete Mathematics 160 (1–3): 81–91. doi:10.1016/S0012-365X(95)00149-Q. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1996). "The reduction of graph families closed under contraction". Discrete Mathematics 160 (1–3): 67–80. doi:10.1016/0012-365X(95)00150-U. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1970). "Concerning the iterated [math]\displaystyle{ \phi }[/math] function". American Mathematical Monthly 77 (1): 60–61. doi:10.2307/2316857. http://www.math.wvu.edu/~hjlai/Pdf/Catlin_Pdf/Catlin01.pdf. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1974). "On the divisors of second-order recurrence". The Fibonacci Quarterly 12 (2). http://www.math.wvu.edu/~hjlai/Pdf/Catlin_Pdf/Catlin02.pdf. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1974). "Lower bound for the period of the Fibonacci series modulo [math]\displaystyle{ m }[/math]". The Fibonacci Quarterly 12 (4): 349–50. http://www.math.wvu.edu/~hjlai/Pdf/Catlin_Pdf/Catlin03.pdf. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1974). "On the multiplication of recurrences". The Fibonacci Quarterly 12: 365–68. http://www.math.wvu.edu/~hjlai/Pdf/Catlin_Pdf/Catlin04.pdf. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1990). "Graphs without nontrivial collapsible subgraphs". Congressus Numerantium 74: 233–38. http://www.math.wvu.edu/~hjlai/Pdf/Catlin_Pdf/Catlin35.pdf. 
• Paul A. Catlin; Hong-jian Lai (1996). "Supereulerian Graphs and the Petersen Graph". Journal of Combinatorial Theory 66 (1): 123–139. doi:10.1006/jctb.1996.0009. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1979). "Hajós' graph-coloring conjecture: Variations and counterexamples". Journal of Combinatorial Theory 26 (2): 268–274. doi:10.1016/0095-8956(79)90062-5. http://www.math.wvu.edu/~hjlai/Pdf/Catlin_Pdf/Catlin14.pdf. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1979). "Brooks' graph-coloring theorem and the independence number". Journal of Combinatorial Theory 27 (1): 42–48. doi:10.1016/0095-8956(79)90066-2. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1996). "A reduction criterion for super-Eulerian graphs". Journal of Graph Theory 22 (2): 151–153. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-0118(199606)22:2<151::aid-jgt5>3.0.co;2-m. 
• Catlin, Paul A. (1991). "Spanning trails joining two given edges". in Alavi, Yousef; Schwenk, Allen; Chartrand, G. Graph Theory, Combinatorics, and Applications. Wiley and Sons, Inc.. pp. 207–22. http://www.math.wvu.edu/~hjlai/Pdf/Catlin_Pdf/Catlin38.pdf. 
• Paul A. Catlin; Hong-jian Lai (1995). "Vertex arboricity and maximum degree". Discrete Mathematics 141 (1–3): 37–46. doi:10.1016/0012-365X(93)E0205-I. http://www.math.wvu.edu/~hjlai/Pdf/Catlin_Pdf/Catlin46.pdf. 
• Catlin, Paul A.; Chen, Zhi-Hong (1991). "Chapter 10: The arboricity of the random graph". in Alavi, Yousef. Graph theory, combinatorics, algorithms, and applications.. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 978-0898712872. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1992). "Super-Eulerian graphs: A survey". Journal of Graph Theory 16 (2): 177–196. doi:10.1002/jgt.3190160209. 
• Paul A. Catlin; Jerrold W. Grossman; Arthur M. Hobbs; Hong-jian Lai (1992). "Fractional Arboricity Strength and Principal Partitions in Graphs and Matroids". Discrete Applied Mathematics 40 (3): 285–302. doi:10.1016/0166-218X(92)90002-R. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1978). "Nonisomorphic graphs having the same vertex neighborhood family". Congressus Numerantium 21: 189–93. 
• Catlin, Paul A.; Chen, Zhi-Hong (1991). "Chapter 7: Non-super-Eulerian graphs with large size". in Y. Alavi. Graph theory, combinatorics, algorithms, and applications. pp. 83–95. http://www.math.wvu.edu/~hjlai/Pdf/Catlin_Pdf/Catlin39.pdf. 
• Paul A. Catlin; T. N. Janakiraman Iqbalunnisa; N. Srinivasan (1990). "Hamilton cycles and closed trails in iterated line graphs". Journal of Graph Theory 14 (3): 347–364. doi:10.1002/jgt.3190140308. http://www.math.wvu.edu/~hjlai/Pdf/Catlin_Pdf/Catlin34a.pdf. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1989). "Double cycle covers and the petersen graph". Journal of Graph Theory 13 (4): 465–483. doi:10.1002/jgt.3190130408. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1989). "Spanning Eulerian subgraphs and matchings". Discrete Mathematics 76 (2): 95–116. doi:10.1016/0012-365X(89)90303-8. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1988). "A reduction method to find spanning Eulerian subgraphs". Journal of Graph Theory 12 (1): 29–44. doi:10.1002/jgt.3190120105. http://www.math.wvu.edu/~hjlai/Pdf/Catlin_Pdf/Catlin26.pdf. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1988). "Contractions of graphs with no spanning Eulerian subgraphs". Combinatorica 8 (4): 313–321. doi:10.1007/BF02189088. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1988). "Graph homomorphisms into the five-cycle". Journal of Combinatorial Theory 45 (2): 199–211. doi:10.1016/0095-8956(88)90069-X. 
• Paul A. Catlin; Michael O. Albertson; Luana Gibbons (1985). Homomorphisms of 3-chromatic graphs, II. pp. 19–28. http://carbon.ucdenver.edu/~egethner/MikeAlbertson/Papers/AlbertsonCatlin_Homom3ChromaticII_1985.pdf. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1987). "Spanning trails". Journal of Graph Theory 11 (2): 161–167. doi:10.1002/jgt.3190110206. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1987). "Super-Eulerian graphcollapsible graphs, and four-cycles". Congressus Numerantium 58: 233–46. http://www.math.wvu.edu/~hjlai/Pdf/Catlin_Pdf/Catlin23.pdf. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1988). "Nearly-Eulerian spanning subgraphs". Ars Combinatoria 25: 115–24. http://www.math.wvu.edu/~hjlai/Pdf/Catlin_Pdf/Catlin24.pdf. 
• Béla Bollobás; Paul A. Catlin (1981). "Topological cliques of random graphs". Journal of Combinatorial Theory 30 (2): 224–227. doi:10.1016/0095-8956(81)90066-6. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1979). "Brooks' graph-coloring theorem and the independence number". Journal of Combinatorial Theory 27 (1): 42–48. doi:10.1016/0095-8956(79)90066-2. 
• P Catlin (1979). "Subgraphs with triangular components". Discrete Mathematics 27 (2): 149–170. doi:10.1016/0012-365X(79)90106-7. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1979). "Survey Of Extensions Of Brooks' Graph Coloring Theorem". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 328 (1 Topics i): 95–99. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1979.tb17770.x. Bibcode: 1979NYASA.328...95C. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1985). "Homomorphisms as a generalization of graph coloring". Congressus Numerantium 50: 179–86. http://www.math.wvu.edu/~hjlai/Pdf/Catlin_Pdf/Catlin21.pdf. 
• P. A. Catlin (1978). "A bound on the chromatic number of a graph". Discrete Mathematics 22 (1): 81–83. doi:10.1016/0012-365X(78)90049-3. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1978). "Another bound on the chromatic number of a graph". Discrete Mathematics 24 (1): 1–6. doi:10.1016/0012-365X(78)90167-X. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1978). "Graph Decompositions Satisfying Extremal Degree Constraints". Journal of Graph Theory 2 (2): 165–170. doi:10.1002/jgt.3190020210. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1990). "Double cycle covers and the Petersen graph, II". Congressus Numerantium 74: 233–38. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1976). "Two problems in metric diophantine approximation I". Journal of Number Theory 8 (3): 282–288. doi:10.1016/0022-314X(76)90006-8. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1976). "Two problems in metric diophantine approximation II". Journal of Number Theory 8 (3): 289–297. doi:10.1016/0022-314X(76)90007-X. 
• Paul A. Catlin; Béla Bollobás; Paul Erdős (1980). "Hadwiger's conjecture is true for almost every graph". European Journal of Combinatorics 1 (3): 195. doi:10.1016/s0195-6698(80)80001-1. 
• Paul A. Catlin (1974). "Subgraphs of graphs I". Discrete Mathematics 10 (2): 225–233. doi:10.1016/0012-365X(74)90119-8. 
• Paul A. Catlin; Arthur M. Hobbs; Hong-Jian Lai (2001). "Graph family operations". Discrete Mathematics 230 (1–3): 71–97. doi:10.1016/S0012-365X(00)00071-6. 

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