Abstract
Bouchet conjectured that every bidirected graph which admits a nowhere-zero bidirected flow will admit a nowhere-zero bidirected 6-flow [A. Bouchet, Nowhere-zero integer flows on a bidirected graph, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 34 (1983) 279–292]. He proved that this conjecture is true with 6 replaced by 216. Zyka proved in his Ph.D dissertation that it is true with 6 replaced by 30. Khelladi proved it is true with 6 replaced with 18 for 4-connected graphs [A. Khelladi, Nowhere-zero integer chains and flows in bidirected graphs, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 43 (1987) 95–115]. In this paper, we prove that Bouchet's conjecture is true for 6-edge connected bidirected graphs.
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