English

Decomposing a triangle-free planar graph into a forest and a subcubic forest

Combinatorics 2023-02-07 v3

Abstract

We strengthen a result of Dross, Montassier and Pinlou (2017) that the vertex set of every triangle-free planar graph can be decomposed into a set that induces a forest and a set that induces a forest with maximum degree at most 55, showing that 55 can be replaced by 33.

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@article{arxiv.2012.15100,
  title  = {Decomposing a triangle-free planar graph into a forest and a subcubic forest},
  author = {Carl Feghali and Robert Šámal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.15100},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

9 pages; implemented referees' suggestions

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