Planar graphs without short even cycles are near-bipartite
Abstract
A graph is near-bipartite if its vertex set can be partitioned into an independent set and a set that induces a forest. It is clear that near-bipartite graphs are 3-colorable. In this note, we show that planar graphs without cycles of lengths in \4, 6, 8\ are near-bipartite.
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