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Sparse graphs with an independent or foresty minimum vertex cut
A connected graph is called fragile if it contains an independent vertex cut. In 2002 Chen and Yu proved that every connected graph of order n and size at most is fragile, and in 2013 Le and Pfender characterized the non-fragile graphs of order n and size . It is natural to consider minimum vertex cuts. We prove two results. (1) Every connected graph of order n with and size at most has an independent minimum vertex cut; (2) every connected graph of order n with and size at most 2n has a foresty minimum vertex cut. Both results are best possible.
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Discrete Mathematics provides a common forum for significant research in many areas of discrete mathematics and combinatorics. Among the fields covered by Discrete Mathematics are graph and hypergraph theory, enumeration, coding theory, block designs, the combinatorics of partially ordered sets, extremal set theory, matroid theory, algebraic combinatorics, discrete geometry, matrices, and discrete probability theory.
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