English

Partitioning a triangle-free planar graph into a forest and a forest of bounded degree

Discrete Mathematics 2016-01-08 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

An (F,Fd)({\cal F},{\cal F}_d)-partition of a graph is a vertex-partition into two sets FF and FdF_d such that the graph induced by FF is a forest and the one induced by FdF_d is a forest with maximum degree at most dd. We prove that every triangle-free planar graph admits an (F,F5)({\cal F},{\cal F}_5)-partition. Moreover we show that if for some integer dd there exists a triangle-free planar graph that does not admit an (F,Fd)({\cal F},{\cal F}_d)-partition, then it is an NP-complete problem to decide whether a triangle-free planar graph admits such a partition.

Keywords

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