Packing cycles in graphs, II

  • Authors:
  • Guoli Ding;Zhenzhen Xu;Wenan Zang

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathematics Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA;Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A graph G packs if for every induced subgraph H of G, the maximum number of vertex-disjoint cycles in H is equal to the minimum number of vertices whose deletion from H results in a forest. The purpose of this paper is to characterize all graphs that pack.