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Letter graphs and modular decomposition

Combinatorics 2021-11-17 v2

Abstract

We prove that if the prime graphs in a graph class have bounded lettericity, then the entire class has bounded lettericity if and only if it does not contain arbitrary large matchings, co-matchings, or a family of graphs that we call stacked paths.

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@article{arxiv.2104.03055,
  title  = {Letter graphs and modular decomposition},
  author = {Robert Ferguson and Vincent Vatter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.03055},
  year   = {2021}
}
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