Induced and weak induced arboricities

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Abstract: We define the induced arboricity of a graph G, denoted by mia(G), as the smallest k such that the edges of G can be covered with k induced forests in G. This notion generalizes the classical notions of the arboricity and strong chromatic index. For a class mathcalF of graphs and a graph parameter p, let p(mathcalF)=supp(G)midGinmathcalF. We show that mia(mathcalF) is bounded from above by an absolute constant depending only on mathcalF, that is mia(mathcalF)eqinfty if and only if chi(mathcalFablafrac12)eqinfty, where mathcalFablafrac12 is the class of frac12-shallow minors of graphs from mathcalF and chi is the chromatic number. Further, we give bounds on mia(mathcalF) when mathcalF is the class of planar graphs, the class of d-degenerate graphs, or the class of graphs having tree-width at most d. Specifically, we show that if mathcalF is the class of planar graphs, then 8leqmia(mathcalF)leq10. In addition, we establish similar results for so-called weak induced arboricities and star arboricities of classes of graphs.












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