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Odd sun-free Triangulated Graphs are $S$-perfect

Combinatorics 2023-05-08 v1

Abstract

For a graph GG with the vertex set V(G)V(G) and the edge set E(G)E(G) and a star subgraph SS of GG, let αS(G)\alpha_S(G) be the maximum number of vertices in GG such that no two of them are in the same star subgraph SS and θS(G)\theta_S(G) be the minimum number of star subgraph SS that cover the vertices of GG. A graph GG is called SS-perfect if for every induced subgraph HH of GG, αS(H)=θS(H)\alpha_S(H)=\theta_S(H). Motivated by perfect graphs discovered by Berge, Ravindra introduced SS-perfect graphs. In this paper we prove that a triangulated graph is SS-perfect if and only if GG is odd sun-free. This result leads to a conjecture which if proved is a structural characterization of SS-perfect graphs in terms of forbidden subgraphs.

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@article{arxiv.2305.03540,
  title  = {Odd sun-free Triangulated Graphs are $S$-perfect},
  author = {G. Ravindra and Sanghita Ghosh and Abraham V. M},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.03540},
  year   = {2023}
}
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