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Planar graphs without 4-cycles adjacent to 3-cycles are list vertex 2-arborable

✍ Scribed by Oleg V. Borodin; Anna O. Ivanova


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
80 KB
Volume
62
Category
Article
ISSN
0364-9024

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Abstract

It is known that not all planar graphs are 4‐choosable; neither all of them are vertex 2‐arborable. However, planar graphs without 4‐cycles and even those without 4‐cycles adjacent to 3‐cycles are known to be 4‐choosable. We extend this last result in terms of covering the vertices of a graph by induced subgraphs of variable degeneracy. In particular, we prove that every planar graph without 4‐cycles adjacent to 3‐cycles can be covered by two induced forests. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 62, 234–240, 2009