Partitioning a triangle-free planar graph into a forest and a forest of bounded degree
Discrete Mathematics
2016-01-08 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
An -partition of a graph is a vertex-partition into two sets and such that the graph induced by is a forest and the one induced by is a forest with maximum degree at most . We prove that every triangle-free planar graph admits an -partition. Moreover we show that if for some integer there exists a triangle-free planar graph that does not admit an -partition, then it is an NP-complete problem to decide whether a triangle-free planar graph admits such a partition.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1601.01523,
title = {Partitioning a triangle-free planar graph into a forest and a forest of bounded degree},
author = {François Dross and Mickael Montassier and Alexandre Pinlou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.01523},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
16 pages, 12 figures