Induced maximal outerplane subgraph conjecture

Let GG be a plane graph of sufficiently large order nn. The outerplane subgraph number so(G)s_{o'}(G) is the maximum order of an induced outerplane subgraph of GG.

Induced maximal outerplane subgraph conjecture.

so(G)5n8.s_{o'}(G)\ge\frac{5n}{8}.

The construction in the paper gives examples with an induced maximal outerplane subgraph of order at most 5V(G)/8+15|V(G)|/8+1; the supplied text does not state a resolution of this conjecture.

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Primary source

Kengo Enami, Naoki Matsumoto and Takamasa Yashima, “Contributions to conjectures on planar graphs: Induced Subgraphs, Treewidth, and Dominating Sets”, arXiv:2506.10471 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1711.00212.

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