Well-Covered Vector Spaces of Graphs

نویسندگان

  • Jason I. Brown
  • Richard J. Nowakowski
چکیده

For any field F, the set of all functions f : V (G) → F whose sum on each maximal independent set is constant forms a vector space over F. In this paper, we show that the dimension can vary depending on the characteristic of the field. We also investigate the dimensions of these vector spaces and show that while some families, such as chordal graphs, have unbounded dimension, other families, such as nonempty circulant graphs of prime order, have bounded dimension.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • SIAM J. Discrete Math.

دوره 19  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2005