A hypercube Qn is a graph in which the vertices are all binary vectors of length n, and two vertices are adjacent if and only if their components differ in exactly one place. A galaxy or a star forest is a union of vertex disjoint stars. The star arboricity of a graph G, sa(G), is the minimum number of galaxies which partition the edge set of G. In this paper among other results, we determine t...

The vertex arboricity ρ(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of subsets into which the vertex set V (G) can be partitioned so that each subset induces an acyclic graph. In this paper, it is shown that if G is a toroidal graph without 7-cycles, moreover, G contains no triangular and adjacent 4-cycles, then ρ(G) ≤ 2. Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 05C15; Secondary: 05C70

The vertex-arboricity a(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of subsets into which the set of vertices of G can be partitioned so that each subset induces a forest. It is well-known that a(G) ≤ 3 for any planar graph G. In this paper we prove that a(G) ≤ 2 whenever G is planar and either G has no 4-cycles or any two triangles of G are at distance at least 3. c © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights r...

A star forest is a forest all of whose components are stars. The star arboricity, st(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of star forests whose union covers all the edges of G. The arboricity, A(G), of a graph G is the minimum number of forests whose union covers all the edges of G. Clearly st(G) > A(G). In fact, Algor and Alon have given examples which show that in some cases st(G) can be as ...

We give a deterministic distributed approximation algorithm for the maximum matching problem in graphs of bounded arboricity. Specifically, given 0 < 2 < 1 and a positive integer a, the algorithm finds a matching of size at least (1 − 2)m(G), where m(G) is the size of the maximum matching in an n-vertex graph G with arboricity at most a. The algorithm runs in O(log∗ n) rounds in the message pas...

In this note we show that the concept of incidence coloring introduced in [BM] is a special case of directed star arboricity, introduced in [AA]. A conjecture in [BM] concerning asmyptotics of the incidence coloring number is solved in the negative following an example in [AA]. We generalize Theorem 2.1 of [AMR] concerning the star arboricity of graphs to the directed case by a slight modificat...

The equitable tree-coloring can formulate a structure decomposition problem on the communication network with some security considerations. Namely, an tree-k-coloring of graph is vertex coloring using k distinct colors such that every color class induces forest and sizes any two classes differ by at most one. In this paper, we show theoretical results graphs proving d-degenerate maximum degree ...