Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Let G be a 5-connected graph and let x1, x2,y1,y2 in V(G) be distinct, such that G[{x1, x2, y1, y2}] is isomorphic to K_4^- and y1y2 is not in E(G). We show that G contains a K_4^- in which x1 is of degree 2, or G-x1 contains K_4^-, or G contains a TK_5 in which x1 is not a branch vertex, or {x2, y1, y2} may be chosen so that for any distinct w1,w2 in N(x1) - {x2, y1, y2}, G - {x1v : v is not in {w1, w2, x2, y1,y2} } contains TK_5.