• Title of article

    The Linear Arboricity of Planar Graphs without 5-Cycles with Chords

  • Author/Authors

    Chen, Xianglian No Affiliation , Wu, Jian-Liang No Affiliation

  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    285
  • To page
    290
  • Abstract
    The linear arboricity la(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of linear forests which partition the edges of G. In this paper, it is proved that for a planar graph G with maximum degree ∆(G) ≥ 7, la(G) =[( ∆(G)) /2] if G has no 5-cycles with chords.
  • Keywords
    Planar graph , linear arboricity , cycle
  • Journal title
    Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society
  • Serial Year
    2013
  • Journal title
    Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society
  • Record number

    2686314