Isolation of the Diamond Graph

作者:Yan, Jingru*
来源:Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society, 2022, 45(3): 1169-1181.
DOI:10.1007/s40840-022-01248-6

摘要

A graph is H-free if it contains no H as a subgraph. The diamond graph is the graph obtained from K-4 by deleting one edge. We prove that if G is a connected graph with order n >= 10, then there exists a subset S subset of V(G) with vertical bar S vertical bar <= n/5 such that the subgraph induced by V(G) \ N[S] is diamond-free, where N[S] is the closed neighborhood of S. Furthermore, the bound is sharp.