Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The maximum size of an independent set in a nonplanar graph

Michael O. Albertson and Joan P. Hutchinson

Source: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Volume 81, Number 3, Part 1 (1975), 554-555.

Primary Subjects: 05C10, 55A15
Secondary Subjects: 05C15

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Permanent link to this document: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183536868
Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet): MR0364012
Zentralblatt MATH identifier: 0311.05107

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Mathematical Reviews (MathSciNet): MR369123
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