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We show that there exists a graph $G$ with $O(n)$ nodes, where any forest of $n$ nodes is a node-induced subgraph of $G$. Furthermore, for constant arboricity $k$, the result implies the existence of a graph with $O(n^k)$ nodes that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Stephen Alstrup , Søren Dahlgaard , Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen

Recently, the second and third author showed that complete geometric graphs on $2n$ vertices in general cannot be partitioned into $n$ plane spanning trees. Building up on this work, in this paper, we initiate the study of partitioning into…

Chernyshev, Rauch, and Rautenbach proved that every connected graph on $n$ vertices with less than $\frac{11}{5}n-\frac{18}{5}$ edges has a vertex cut that induces a forest, and conjectured that the same remains true if the graph has less…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-27 F. Botler , Y. S. Couto , C. G. Fernandes , E. F. de Figueiredo , R. Gómez , V. F. dos Santos , C. M. Sato

This paper is motivated by the following question: what are the unavoidable induced subgraphs of graphs with large treewidth? Aboulker et al. made a conjecture which answers this question in graphs of bounded maximum degree, asserting that…

We prove that every 3-connected planar graph on $n$ vertices contains an induced path on $\Omega(\log n)$ vertices, which is best possible and improves the best known lower bound by a multiplicative factor of $\log \log n$. We deduce that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Louis Esperet , Laetitia Lemoine , Frédéric Maffray

We study the problem of gradually representing a complex graph as a sequence of drawings of small subgraphs whose union is the complex graph. The sequence of drawings is called \emph{storyplan}, and each drawing in the sequence is called a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Jiří Fiala , Oksana Firman , Giuseppe Liotta , Alexander Wolff , Johannes Zink

The cluster of a crossing in a graph drawing in the plane is the set of the four end-vertices of its two crossed edges. Two crossings are independent if their clusters do not intersect. In this paper, we prove that every plane graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Bei Niu , Xin Zhang , Yuping Gao

Aboulker, Adler, Kim, Sintiari, and Trotignon conjectured that every graph with bounded maximum degree and large treewidth must contain, as an induced subgraph, a large subdivided wall, or the line graph of a large subdivided wall. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Bogdan Alecu , Maria Chudnovsky , Kristina Vušković

In this paper, a new concept in graphs namely well-f-coveredness is introduced. We characterize all graphs with such property, whose maximum induced forests are of boundary order. Also we prove several propositions concerning with obtaining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Reza Jafarpour-Golzari

The induced arboricity of a graph $G$ is the smallest number of induced forests covering the edges of $G$. This is a well-defined parameter bounded from above by the number of edges of $G$ when each forest in a cover consists of exactly one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-01 Maria Axenovich , Daniel Goncalves , Jonathan Rollin , Torsten Ueckerdt

Two of the most prominent unresolved conjectures in graph theory, the Albertson-Berman conjecture and the Matheson-Tarjan conjecture, have been extensively studied by many researchers. (AB) Every planar graph of order $n$ has an induced…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Kengo Enami , Naoki Matsumoto , Takamasa Yashima

We give a series of new lower bounds on the minimum number of vertices required by a graph to contain every graph of a given family as induced subgraph. In particular, we show that this induced-universal graph for $n$-vertex planar graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Cyril Gavoille , Amaury Jacques

We strengthen a result of Dross, Montassier and Pinlou (2017) that the vertex set of every triangle-free planar graph can be decomposed into a set that induces a forest and a set that induces a forest with maximum degree at most $5$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Carl Feghali , Robert Šámal

We determine upper and lower bounds on the zero forcing number of 2-connected outerplanar graphs in terms of the structure of the weak dual. We show that the upper bound is always at most half the number of vertices of the graph. This work…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Nolan Ison , Mark Kempton , Franklin Kenter

An $({\cal F},{\cal F}_d)$-partition of a graph is a vertex-partition into two sets $F$ and $F_d$ such that the graph induced by $F$ is a forest and the one induced by $F_d$ is a forest with maximum degree at most $d$. We prove that every…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-01-08 François Dross , Mickael Montassier , Alexandre Pinlou

We show that the edges of any planar graph of maximum degree at most $9$ can be partitioned into $4$ linear forests and a matching. Combined with known results, this implies that the edges of any planar graph $G$ of odd maximum degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Marthe Bonamy , Jadwiga Czyżewska , Łukasz Kowalik , Michał Pilipczuk

An outer-1-planar graph is a graph admitting a drawing in the plane so that all vertices appear in the outer region of the drawing and every edge crosses at most one other edge. This paper establishes the local structure of outer-1-planar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Yan Li , Xin Zhang

We show that every $n$-vertex planar graph admits a simultaneous embedding with no mapping and with fixed edges with any $(n/2)$-vertex planar graph. In order to achieve this result, we prove that every $n$-vertex plane graph has an induced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Patrizio Angelini , William Evans , Fabrizio Frati , Joachim Gudmundsson

A graph on $n \ge 3$ vertices drawn in the plane such that each edge is crossed at most four times has at most $6(n-2)$ edges -- this result proven by Ackerman is outstanding in the literature of beyond-planar graphs with regard to its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Aaron Büngener

We show that every outerplanar graph $G$ can be linearly embedded in the plane such that the number of distinct distances between pairs of adjacent vertices is at most thirteen and there is no intersection between the image of a vertex and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Ziv Bakhajian , Ohad N. Feldheim