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feedback vertex set

(definition)

Definition: The smallest set of vertices whose deletion results in an acyclic graph.

See also feedback edge set.

Author: PEB

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Paul E. Black, "feedback vertex set", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 2 September 2014. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/feedbackVertexSet.html