Triangle-free graphs with no six-vertex induced path

نویسندگان

  • Maria Chudnovsky
  • Paul Seymour
  • Sophie Spirkl
  • Mingxian Zhong
چکیده

The graphs with no five-vertex induced path are still not understood. But in the triangle-free case, we can do this and one better; we give an explicit construction for all triangle-free graphs with no six-vertex induced path. Here are two examples: the 16-vertex Clebsch graph, and the graph obtained from a complete bipartite graph by subdividing a perfect matching. We show that every connected triangle-free graph with no six-vertex induced path is an induced subgraph of one of these two (modulo some twinning and duplication).

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تاریخ انتشار 2017