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On Roussel-Rubio-type lemmas and their consequences

Combinatorics 2020-12-01 v1

Abstract

Roussel and Rubio proved a lemma which is essential in the proof of the Strong Perfect Graph Theorem. We give a new short proof of the main case of this lemma. In this note, we also give a short proof of Hayward's decomposition theorem for weakly chordal graphs, relying on a Roussel--Rubio-type lemma. We recall how Roussel--Rubio-type lemmas yield very short proofs of the existence of even pairs in weakly chordal graphs and Meyniel graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1309.1284,
  title  = {On Roussel-Rubio-type lemmas and their consequences},
  author = {Nicolas Trotignon and Kristina Vušković},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.1284},
  year   = {2020}
}
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