A linear-time algorithm for the weighted feedback vertex problem on interval graphs
Information Processing Letters
The chromatic number of oriented graphs
Journal of Graph Theory
Journal of Graph Theory
Total colourings of planar graphs with large girth
European Journal of Combinatorics
Almost exact minimum feedback vertex set in meshes and butterflies
Information Processing Letters
Graph classes: a survey
Feedback vertex set in hypercubes
Information Processing Letters
Wavelength conversion in optical networks
Journal of Algorithms
Constant Ratio Approximations of the Weighted Feedback Vertex Set Problem for Undirected Graphs
ISAAC '95 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
On Improved Time Bounds for Permutation Graph Problems
WG '92 Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
Acyclic colorings of subcubic graphs
Information Processing Letters
Feedback vertex sets in mesh-based networks
Theoretical Computer Science
Acyclic colorings of subcubic graphs
Information Processing Letters
Dynamic monopolies and feedback vertex sets in hexagonal grids
Computers & Mathematics with Applications
A polyhedral study of the acyclic coloring problem
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Acyclic coloring with few division vertices
Journal of Discrete Algorithms
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In the feedback vertex set problem, the aim is to minimize, in a connected graph G = (V, E), the cardinality of the set V(G) ⊆ V, whose removal induces an acyclic subgraph. In this paper, we show an interesting relationship between the minimum feedback vertex set problem and the acyclic coloring problem (which consists in coloring vertices of a graph G such that no two colors induce a cycle in G). Then, using results from acyclic coloring, as well as other techniques, we are able to derive new lower and upper bounds on the cardinality of a minimum feedback vertex set in large families of graphs, such as graphs of maximum degree 3, of maximum degree 4, planar graphs, outerplanar graphs, 1-planar graphs, k-trees, etc. Some of these bounds are tight (outerplanar graphs, k-trees), all the others differ by a multiplicative constant never exceeding 2.