Results of Lovász and Padberg entail that the class of so-called partitionable graphs contains all the potential counterexamples to Berge's famous Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture, which asserts that the only minimal imperfect graphs are the odd chordless cycles with at least five vertices (''odd hol
The connectivity of minimal imperfect graphs
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- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 535 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-9024
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✦ Synopsis
We prove that partitionable graphs are 2w -2-connected, that this bound is sharp, and prove some structural properties of cutsets of cardinality 2w -2. The proof of the connectivity result is a simple linear algebraic proof.
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