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Odd induced subgraphs in graphs with treewidth at most two

Combinatorics 2017-07-18 v1

Abstract

A long-standing conjecture asserts that there exists a constant c>0c>0 such that every graph of order nn without isolated vertices contains an induced subgraph of order at least cncn with all degrees odd. Scott (1992) proved that every graph GG has an induced subgraph of order at least V(G)/(2χ(G))|V(G)|/(2\chi(G)) with all degrees odd, where χ(G)\chi(G) is the chromatic number of GG, this implies the conjecture for graphs with { bounded} chromatic number. But the factor 1/(2χ(G))1/(2\chi(G)) seems to be not best possible, for example, Radcliffe and Scott (1995) proved c=23c=\frac 23 for trees, Berman, Wang and Wargo (1997) showed that c=25c=\frac 25 for graphs with maximum degree 33, so it is interesting to determine the exact value of cc for special family of graphs. In this paper, we further confirm the conjecture for graphs with treewidth at most 2 with c=25c=\frac{2}{5}, and the bound is best possible.

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@article{arxiv.1707.04812,
  title  = {Odd induced subgraphs in graphs with treewidth at most two},
  author = {Xinmin Hou and Lei Yu and Jiaao Li and Boyuan Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.04812},
  year   = {2017}
}

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13 pages

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