Induced matchings in subcubic planar graphs

  • Authors:
  • Ross J. Kang;Matthias Mnich;Tobias Müller

  • Affiliations:
  • Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom;Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ESA'10 Proceedings of the 18th annual European conference on Algorithms: Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present a linear-time algorithm that, given a planar graph with m edges and maximum degree 3, finds an induced matching of size at least m/9. This is best possible.