English

Rainbow independent sets on dense graph classes

Combinatorics 2021-04-12 v3

Abstract

Given a family I\mathcal{I} of independent sets in a graph, a rainbow independent set is an independent set II such that there is an injection ϕ ⁣:II\phi\colon I\to \mathcal{I} where for each vIv\in I, vv is contained in ϕ(v)\phi(v). Aharoni, Briggs, J. Kim, and M. Kim [Rainbow independent sets in certain classes of graphs. arXiv:1909.13143] determined for various graph classes C\mathcal{C} whether C\mathcal{C} satisfies a property that for every nn, there exists N=N(C,n)N=N(\mathcal{C},n) such that every family of NN independent sets of size nn in a graph in C\mathcal{C} contains a rainbow independent set of size nn. In this paper, we add two dense graph classes satisfying this property, namely, the class of graphs of bounded neighborhood diversity and the class of rr-powers of graphs in a bounded expansion class.

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@article{arxiv.2001.10566,
  title  = {Rainbow independent sets on dense graph classes},
  author = {Jinha Kim and Minki Kim and O-joung Kwon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.10566},
  year   = {2021}
}
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