Cyclomatic numbers of connected induced subgraphs
โ Scribed by Xingxing Yu
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 509 KB
- Volume
- 105
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-365X
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โฆ Synopsis
We give an upper bound for w(A), the minimum cyclomatic number of connected induced subgraphs containing a given independent set A of vertices in a given graph G. We also give an upper bound for w(A) when G is triangle-free.
We show that these two bounds are best possible. Similar results are obtained for A to be a matching of G.
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