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Perfect divisibility of (fork, antifork$\cup K_1$)-free graphs

Combinatorics 2025-05-08 v1

Abstract

A {\em fork} is a graph obtained from K1,3K_{1,3} (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 K1K_1 and K4eK_4-e. A graph is perfectly divisible if for each of its induced subgraph HH, V(H)V (H) can be partitioned into AA and BB such that H[A]H[A] is perfect and ω(H[B])<ω(H)\omega(H[B]) < \omega(H). 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}K1\cup K_1)-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}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2504.14863