Covering planar graphs with forests

József Balogh; Martin Kochol; András Pluhár; Xingxing Yu

doi:10.1016/j.jctb.2004.12.002

Covering planar graphs with forests

József Balogh, Martin Kochol, András Pluhár, Xingxing Yu

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Abstract

We study the problem of covering graphs with trees and a graph of bounded maximum degree. By a classical theorem of Nash-Williams, every planar graph can be covered by three trees. We show that every planar graph can be covered by two trees and a forest, and the maximum degree of the forest is at most 8. Stronger results are obtained for some special classes of planar graphs.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	147-158
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B
Volume	94
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jctb.2004.12.002
State	Published - May 2005
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Forests
Graph minors
Hamiltonian cycles
Outerplanar graphs
Planar graphs
Series parallel graphs
Trees

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
Computational Theory and Mathematics

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