Simplicial Vertices in Graphs with no Induced Four-Edge Path or Four-Edge Antipath, and the H6-Conjecture

نویسندگان

  • Maria Chudnovsky
  • Peter Maceli
چکیده

Let G be the class of all graphs with no induced four-edge path or four-edge antipath. Hayward and Nastos [6] conjectured that every prime graph in G not isomorphic to the cycle of length five is either a split graph or contains a certain useful arrangement of simplicial and antisimplicial vertices. In this paper we give a counterexample to their conjecture, and prove a slightly weaker version. Additionally, applying a result of the first author and Seymour [1] we give a short proof of Fouquet’s result [3] on the structure of the subclass of bull-free graphs contained in G.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of Graph Theory

دوره 76  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014