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On the Point-Arboricity of a Graph and its Complement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John Mitchem
John Mitchem*
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Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan San Jose State College, San Jose, California
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The point-arboricity ρ (G) of a graph G is defined as the minimum number of subsets into which the point set V(G) of G may be partitioned so that each subset induces an acyclic subgraph. Equivalently, the point-arboricity of G may be defined as the least number of colours needed to colour the points of G so that no cycle of G has all of its points coloured the same. This term was introduced by Chartrand, Geller, and Hedetniemi [1], although the concept was first considered by Motzkin [4].

As with the chromatic number of a graph G, which we denote by χ(G), there is no explicit formula for the point-arboricity of a graph. However, Nordhaus and Gaddum [5] have shown that if G is a graph with p points, then

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 1971 , pp. 287 - 292
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

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