Balanced judicious bipartitions of graphs

Balanced judicious bipartitions of graphs

A bipartition of the vertex set of a graph is called balanced if the sizes of the sets in the bipartition differ by at most one. Bollobás and Scott [3] conjectured that if G is a graph with minimum degree at least 2 then V (G) admits a balanced bipartition V1, V2 such that for each i, G has at most |E(G)|/3 edges with both ends in Vi. The minimum degree condition is necessary, and a result of B...

On judicious bipartitions of graphs

For a positive integer m, let f(m) be the maximum value t such that any graph with m edges has a bipartite subgraph of size at least t, and let g(m) be the minimum value s such that for any graph G with m edges there exists a bipartition V (G) = V1 ∪ V2 such that G has at most s edges with both incident vertices in Vi. Alon proved that the limsup of f(m)− (m/2 + √ m/8) tends to infinity as m te...

Minimum balanced bipartitions of f-graphs

In this paper, we show that each f -graph with more than 5 vertices has an unique minimum bipartition, and we also show the upper and lower bound of the balanced size of f -graphs.

On minimum balanced bipartitions of triangle-free graphs

A note on balanced bipartitions

A balanced bipartition of a graph G is a bipartition V1 and V2 of V (G) such that −1 ≤ |V1| − |V2| ≤ 1. Bollobás and Scott conjectured that if G is a graph with m edges and minimum degree at least 2 then G admits a balanced bipartition V1, V2 such that max{e(V1), e(V2)} ≤ m/3, where e(Vi) denotes the number of edges of G with both ends in Vi. In this note, we prove this conjecture for graphs wi...