Perfect divisibility of (fork, antifork$\cup K_1$)-free graphs
Combinatorics
2025-05-08 v1
Abstract
A {\em fork} is a graph obtained from (usually called {\em claw}) by subdividing an edge once, an {\em antifork} is the complement graph of a fork, and a {\em co-cricket} is a union of and . A graph is perfectly divisible if for each of its induced subgraph , can be partitioned into and such that is perfect and . Karthick {\em et al.} [Electron. J. Comb. 28 (2021), P2.20.] conjectured that fork-free graphs are perfectly divisible, and they proved that each (fork, co-cricket)-free graph is either claw-free or perfectly divisible. In this paper, we show that every (fork, {\em antifork})-free graph is perfectly divisible. This improves some results of Karthick {\em et al.}.
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@article{arxiv.2505.04429,
title = {Perfect divisibility of (fork, antifork$\cup K_1$)-free graphs},
author = {Ran Chen and Baogang Xu and Miaoxia Zhuang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.04429},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2504.14863