Oriented (2,4,4)-flows double-cover conjecture

Establish that every bridgeless graph, or at least every bridgeless cubic graph, has an oriented (2,4,4)-flows double cover, consisting of three subgraphs carrying nowhere-zero 2-, 4-, and 4-flows whose edge orientations cover each edge in both directions.

Background

The paper relates ordinary (2,4,4)-flows to 6-cycle 4-covers and asks whether the flow decomposition can be equipped with compatible orientations. The conjecture is trivial for 3-edge-colourable cubic graphs and was computationally verified by the paper for small snarks up to 28 vertices, but no general proof is given.

References

Every bridgeless (cubic?) graph has an oriented (2,4,4)-flows double cover.

Computational Graph Decompositions I: Oriented Berge-Fulkerson Conjecture  (2501.05348 - Ulyanov, 9 Jan 2025) in Section “Oriented (2,4,4)-flows”