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A separator theorem for chordal graphs. (English) Zbl 0551.05049

A graph is called chordal if every cycle of it of length at least four has a chord. In the paper it is proved: Let G be a chordal graph with n vertices and m edges. Then G has a set of O(\(\sqrt{m})\) vertices whose removal leaves no connected component with more than n/2 vertices. Moreover, an O(m) time algorithm for finding the separating set is presented.
Reviewer: P.Horak

MSC:

05C40 Connectivity
68R10 Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science
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