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On Closed Graphs I

Combinatorics 2015-01-05 v2 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

A graph is closed when its vertices have a labeling by [n] with a certain property first discovered in the study of binomial edge ideals. In this article, we prove that a connected graph has a closed labeling if and only if it is chordal, claw-free, and has a property we call narrow, which holds when every vertex is distance at most one from all longest shortest paths of the graph.

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@article{arxiv.1306.5149,
  title  = {On Closed Graphs I},
  author = {David A. Cox and Andrew Erskine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.5149},
  year   = {2015}
}

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The paper "On Closed Graphs" (1306.5149v1) has been divided into two papers, "On Closed Graphs I", which is this arXiv submission, and "On Closed Graphs II", which will be a separate arXiv submission

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