Author/Authors :
Robert Cimikowski، نويسنده , , Don Coppersmith، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
We define the subvariance Sp(F) of a family of graphs F with respect to property P to be the infimum of the ratio |H1/|H2|, where H1 and H2 are any two maximal spanning subgraphs of G with property P, and where G is a member of F. It is shown that, for the family of all connected graphs, the subvariance when P is planar, outerplanar, and bipartite planar, is 13, 12, and 12, respectively.