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The minimum size of a $3$-connected locally nonforesty graph

Combinatorics 2024-11-01 v1

Abstract

A local subgraph of a graph is the subgraph induced by the neighborhood of a vertex. Thus a graph of order nn has nn local subgraphs. A graph GG is called locally nonforesty if every local subgraph of GG contains a cycle. Recently, in studying forest cuts of a graph, Chernyshev, Rauch and Rautenbach posed the conjecture that if nn and mm are the order and size of a 33-connected locally nonforesty graph respectively, then m7(n1)/3.m\ge 7(n-1)/3. We solve this problem by determining the minimum size of a 33-connected locally nonforesty graph of order n.n. It turns out that the conjecture does not hold.

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@article{arxiv.2410.23702,
  title  = {The minimum size of a $3$-connected locally nonforesty graph},
  author = {Chengli Li and Yurui Tang and Xingzhi Zhan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.23702},
  year   = {2024}
}