{ "id": "2012.15100", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-12-30T10:12:43.000Z", "updated": "2020-12-30T10:12:43.000Z", "title": "Decomposing a triangle-free planar graph into a forest and a subcubic forest", "authors": [ "Carl Feghali", "Robert Šámal" ], "comment": "7 pages", "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "We strengthen a result of Dross, Montassier and Pinlou (2017) that the vertex set of every triangle-free planar graph can be decomposed into a set that induces a forest and a set that induces a forest with maximum degree at most $5$, showing that $5$ can be replaced by $3$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-12-30T10:12:43.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05C15" ], "keywords": [ "triangle-free planar graph", "subcubic forest", "vertex set", "decomposing", "maximum degree" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 7, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }