Cutting a Graph into Small Components

Miranca Fischermann1, Dieter Rautenbach1, Lutz Volkmann1
1Lehrstuhl II fiir Mathematik, RWTH-Aachen, 52056 Aachen, Germany

Abstract

For some fixed \( n_0 \geq 0 \), we study the minimum number of vertices or edges that have to be removed from a graph such that no component of the rest has more than \( n_0 \) vertices.

Keywords: cut; centroid; median; separator