Feedback vertex sets in star graphs

  • Authors:
  • Fu-Hsing Wang;Yue-Li Wang;Jou-Ming Chang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China and Department of Information Management, Chung Yu Junior College of B ...;Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China;Department of Information Management, National Taipei College of Business, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In a graph G = (V, E), a subset F ⊂ V(G) is a feedback vertex set of G if the subgraph induced by V(G) \ F is acyclic. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for finding a small feedback vertex set of a star graph. Indeed, our algorithm can derive an upper bound to the size of the feedback vertex set for star graphs. Also by applying the properties of regular graphs, a lower bound can easily be achieved for star graphs.