Bipartizing fullerenes

Abstract

A fullerene graph is a cubic bridgeless planar graph with twelve 5-faces such that all other faces are 6-faces. We show that any fullerene graph on n vertices can be bipartized by removing O(sqrtn) edges. This bound is asymptotically optimal.

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