The strong perfect graph theorem

Strong Perfect Graph Theorem

In 1960 Berge came up with the concept of perfect graphs, and in doing so, conjectured some characteristics about them. A perfect graph is a graph in which the chromatic number of every induced subgraph equals the size of the largest clique of that subgraph [2]. Two conjectures are now known as the Perfect Graph Theorem and the Strong Perfect Graph Theorem. Both of these theorems make deteminin...

The Strong Perfect Graph Theorem

A graph G is perfect if for every induced subgraph H, the chromatic number of H equals the size of the largest complete subgraph of H, and G is Berge if no induced subgraph of G is an odd cycle of length at least 5 or the complement of one. The “strong perfect graph conjecture” (Berge, 1961) asserts that a graph is perfect if and only if it is Berge. A stronger conjecture was made recently by C...

The Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture

A graph is perfect if, in all its induced subgraphs, the size of a largest clique is equal to the chromatic number. Examples of perfect graphs include bipartite graphs, line graphs of bipartite graphs and the complements of such graphs. These four classes of perfect graphs will be called basic. In 1960, Berge formulated two conjectures about perfect graphs, one stronger than the other. The weak...

Forcing Colorations and the Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture

We give various reformulations of the Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture, based on a study of forced coloring procedures, uniquely colorable subgraphs and ! ? 1-cliques in minimal imperfect graphs.

About the Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture on circular partitionable graphs