2-factors and Independent Sets on Claw-free Graphs

نویسندگان

  • Roman Kuzel
  • Kenta Ozeki
  • Kiyoshi Yoshimoto
چکیده

In this paper, we show that if G is an l-connected claw-free graph with minimum degree at least three and l ∈ {2, 3}, then for any maximum independent set S, there exists a 2-factor in which each cycle contains at least l − 1 vertices in S.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Discrete Mathematics

دوره 312  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012