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Isolation of the diamond graph

Combinatorics 2021-10-19 v1

Abstract

A graph is HH-free if it does not contain HH as a subgraph. The diamond graph is the graph obtained from K4K_4 by deleting one edge. We prove that if GG is a connected graph with order n10n\geq 10, then there exists a subset SV(G)S\subseteq V(G) with Sn/5|S|\leq n/5 such that the graph induced by V(G)N[S]V(G)\setminus N[S] is diamond-free, where N[S]N[S] is the closed neighborhood of SS. Furthermore, the bound is sharp.

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@article{arxiv.2110.08724,
  title  = {Isolation of the diamond graph},
  author = {Jingru Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.08724},
  year   = {2021}
}

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14 pages, 6 figures

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