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Induced Matchings in Subcubic Graphs

Combinatorics 2013-12-05 v1

Abstract

We prove that a cubic graph with mm edges has an induced matching with at least m/9m/9 edges. Our result generalizes a result for planar graphs due to Kang, Mnich, and M\"{u}ller (Induced matchings in subcubic planar graphs, SIAM J. Discrete Math. 26 (2012) 1383-1411) and solves a conjecture of Henning and Rautenbach (Induced matchings in subcubic graphs without short cycles, to appear in Discrete Math.).

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@article{arxiv.1312.1110,
  title  = {Induced Matchings in Subcubic Graphs},
  author = {Felix Joos and Dieter Rautenbach and Thomas Sasse},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.1110},
  year   = {2013}
}

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8 pages

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