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Written on the Wall II - Conjecture 40

Mathematical statement

WOWII Conjecture 40

For a nontrivial connected graph G the size f(G) of a largest induced forest satisfies f(G) ≥ ceil((p(G) + b(G) + 1)/2) where p(G) is the path cover number and b(G) is the largest induced bipartite subgraph size.

Statement source: Written on the Wall II statement material

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conjecture40

Canonical source
Complete statement target, proof intentionally absentLean 4
theorem conjecture40 (h_conn : G.Connected) (h_nontrivial : 1 < Fintype.card α) :    ⌈(((pathCoverNumber G : ) + b G + 1) / 2)⌉   G.largestInducedForestSize := by  sorry
Statement source
Formal Conjectures
Lean version
v4.27.0
Placeholder
Present; no proof artifact
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