Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4654825 | European Journal of Combinatorics | 2008 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
W. He et al. showed that a planar graph of girth 11 can be decomposed into a forest and a matching. D. Kleitman et al. proved the same statement for planar graphs of girth 10. We further improve the bound on girth to 9.
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Authors
Oleg V. Borodin, Alexandr V. Kostochka, Naeem N. Sheikh, Gexin Yu,