Covering a Graph by Forests and a Matching

Tomáš Kaiser, Mickaël Montassier, André Raspaud
2011 SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics  
We prove that for any positive integer k and for ε = 1/((k + 2)(3k 2 + 1)), the edges of any graph whose fractional arboricity is at most k + ε can be decomposed into k forests and a matching.
doi:10.1137/100818340 fatcat:y6qyimiu5bbhvcu3eljovvfyxm