Nonseparating Induced Cycles Consisting of Contractible Edges in k -Connected Graphs
β Scribed by Egawa, Yoshimi; Inoue, Katsumi; Kawarabayashi, Ken-ichi
- Book ID
- 118196960
- Publisher
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 175 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-4801
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