Catlin's conjecture and maximum eulerian subgraph

Abstract

A graph $G=(V(G), E(G))$ is supereulerian if it has a spanning Eulerian subgraph. Let $\ell(G)$ be the maximum number of edges of spanning Eulerian subgraphs of a supereulerian graph $G$. In $1996$, Catlin conjectured that if $G$ is a supereulerian graph, then $\ell(G)\ge \frac{2}{3}|E(G)|$. But in $2004$, infinitely many counterexamples were found for this conjecture and it was shown that this conjecture holds for $r$-regular graphs when $r\neq 5$. In this paper we show that Catlin's Conjecture holds for graphs having no vertex with degree $3$ and also it holds for $5$-regular graphs. Moreover, if $G$ is a graph having no vertex with degree $3$, then $\ell(G)\ge \frac{2}{3}|E(G)|+ v_2(G)$, when $v_2(G)$ is the number of vertices of degree $2$.