Covering the edges of a random graph by cliques
β Scribed by Alan Frieze; Bruce Reed
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 267 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0209-9683
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π SIMILAR VOLUMES
The following conjecture of T. Gallai is proved: If G is a chordal graph on n vertices, such that all its maximal complete subgraphs have order at least 3, then there is a vertex set of cardinality ~n/3 which meets all maximal complete subgraphs of G. Further related results are given.
The following problem is investigated. Given an undirected graph G, determine the smallest cardinality of a vertex set that meets all complete subgraphs KC G maximal under inclusion.
We prove that every connected graph on n vertices can be covered by at most nΓ2+O(n 3Γ4 ) paths. This implies that a weak version of a well-known conjecture of Gallai is asymptotically true.