Effect of Open Packing upon Vertex Removal

In a graph G = (V, E), a non-empty set $S{\subseteq}V$ is said to be an open packing set if no two vertices of S have a common neighbour in G. The maximum cardinality of an open packing set is called the open packing number and is denoted by ${\rho}^{\circ}$. In this paper, we examine the effect of ${\rho}^{\circ}$ when G is modified by deleting a vertex.