English

Claw-freeness, 3-homogeneous subsets of a graph and a reconstruction problem

Combinatorics 2008-12-09 v1

Abstract

We describe Forb{K1,3,K1,3}Forb\{K_{1,3}, \overline {K_{1,3}}\}, the class of graphs GG such that GG and its complement G \overline{G} are claw-free. With few exceptions, it is made of graphs whose connected components consist of cycles of length at least 4, paths or isolated vertices, and of the complements of these graphs. Considering the hypergraph H(3)(G){\mathcal H} ^{(3)}(G) made of the 3-element subsets of the vertex set of a graph GG on which GG induces a clique or an independent subset, we deduce from above a description of the Boolean sum G+˙GG\dot{+}G' of two graphs GG and GG' giving the same hypergraph. We indicate the role of this latter description in a reconstruction problem of graphs up to complementation.

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@article{arxiv.0812.1278,
  title  = {Claw-freeness, 3-homogeneous subsets of a graph and a reconstruction problem},
  author = {Maurice Pouzet and Hamza Si Kaddour},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.1278},
  year   = {2008}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures