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Planar digraphs without large acyclic sets

Combinatorics 2016-06-15 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Given a directed graph, an acyclic set is a set of vertices inducing a subgraph with no directed cycle. In this note we show that there exist oriented planar graphs of order nn for which the size of the maximum acyclic set is at most n+12\lceil \frac{n+1}{2} \rceil, for any nn. This disproves a conjecture of Harutyunyan and shows that a question of Albertson is best possible.

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@article{arxiv.1504.06726,
  title  = {Planar digraphs without large acyclic sets},
  author = {Kolja Knauer and Petru Valicov and Paul S. Wenger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.06726},
  year   = {2016}
}

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3 pages, 1 figure

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