The linear arboricity of planar graphs with no short cycles

  • Authors:
  • Jian-Liang Wu;Jian-Feng Hou;Gui-Zhen Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Mathematics, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, PR China;School of Mathematics, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, PR China;School of Mathematics, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, PR China

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The linear arboricity of a graph G is the minimum number of linear forests which partition the edges of G. Akiyama, Exoo and Harary conjectured that @?@D(G)2@?@?la(G)@?@?@D(G)+12@? for any simple graph G. In the paper, it is proved that if G is a planar graph with @D=7 and without i-cycles for some i@?{4,5}, then la(G)=@?@D(G)2@?.