Partitioning a planar graph without chordal 5-cycles into two forests.
(English).Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal,
vol. 74
(2024),
issue 2,
pp. 377-388
Summary: It was known that the vertex set of every planar graph can be partitioned into three forests. We prove that the vertex set of a planar graph without chordal 5-cycles can be partitioned into two forests. This extends a result obtained by Raspaud and Wang in 2008.
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