2009
DOI: 10.1016/j.jctb.2008.10.001
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Large induced trees in Kr-free graphs

Abstract: For a graph G, let t(G) denote the maximum number of vertices in an induced subgraph of G that is a tree. In this paper, we study the problem of bounding t(G) for graphs which do not contain a complete graph K r on r vertices. This problem was posed twenty years ago by Erdős, Saks, and Sós. Substantially improving earlier results of various researchers, we prove that every connected triangle-free graph on n vertices contains an induced tree of order √ n. When r 4, we also show that t(G) log n 4 log r for every… Show more

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“…tree [10] log n 4 log r connected, K r -free tree [12] √ n connected, triangle-free tree [12] log n 12 log log n planar, 3-connected path [6] n − m + c 4 max degree ≤ 3 c = # connected components forest [1] n ⌈(∆ + 1)/3⌉ max degree ∆ max degree 2 [13] 3n ∆ + 5/3 max degree ∆ outerplanar [19] 3n ∆ + 1 max degree ∆ planar [7] 3n 2m/n + 1 m ≥ 2n or connected and m ≥ n has at most one cycle. Equivalently, the pseudoforests can be formed from forests (acyclic undirected graphs) by adding at most one edge per connected component.…”
Section: Preliminariesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…tree [10] log n 4 log r connected, K r -free tree [12] √ n connected, triangle-free tree [12] log n 12 log log n planar, 3-connected path [6] n − m + c 4 max degree ≤ 3 c = # connected components forest [1] n ⌈(∆ + 1)/3⌉ max degree ∆ max degree 2 [13] 3n ∆ + 5/3 max degree ∆ outerplanar [19] 3n ∆ + 1 max degree ∆ planar [7] 3n 2m/n + 1 m ≥ 2n or connected and m ≥ n has at most one cycle. Equivalently, the pseudoforests can be formed from forests (acyclic undirected graphs) by adding at most one edge per connected component.…”
Section: Preliminariesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The studied approaches for such problems include parameterized complexity (Yannakakis and Gavril, 1987; Jaffke et al., 2020b; Bergougnoux and Kanté, 2021) and integer programming (Melo and Ribeiro, 2022). Several works deal with computational complexity and graph theoretical properties (Erdös et al., 1986; Palka and Ruciński, 1986; Frieze and Jackson, 1987; Suen, 1992; Scott, 1997; Rautenbach, 2007; Matoušek and Šámal, 2008; Derhy and Picouleau, 2009; Fox et al., 2009; Pfender, 2010; Hertz et al., 2014; Dutta and Subramanian, 2023). Other problems related to obtaining induced trees including a specified subset of the vertices were also considered in the literature.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%