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A lower bound on the order of the largest induced forest in planar graphs with high girth

Discrete Mathematics 2015-04-09 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We give here new upper bounds on the size of a smallest feedback vertex set in planar graphs with high girth. In particular, we prove that a planar graph with girth gg and size mm has a feedback vertex set of size at most 4m3g\frac{4m}{3g}, improving the trivial bound of 2mg\frac{2m}{g}. We also prove that every 22-connected graph with maximum degree 33 and order nn has a feedback vertex set of size at most n+23\frac{n+2}{3}.

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@article{arxiv.1504.01949,
  title  = {A lower bound on the order of the largest induced forest in planar graphs with high girth},
  author = {François Dross and Mickael Montassier and Alexandre Pinlou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.01949},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

12 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1409.1348