Equimatchable Claw-Free Graphs
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چکیده
A graph is equimatchable if all of its maximal matchings have the same size. A graph is claw-free if it does not have a claw as an induced subgraph. In this paper, we provide, to the best of our knowledge, the first characterization of claw-free equimatchable graphs by identifying the equimatchable clawfree graph families. This characterization implies an efficient recognition algorithm.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1607.00476 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016