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Revisiting Extremal Graphs Having No Stable Cutsets

Combinatorics 2024-12-03 v1

Abstract

Confirming a conjecture posed by Caro, it was shown by Chen and Yu that every graph GG with nn vertices and at most 2n42n-4 edges has a stable cutset, which is a stable set of vertices whose removal disconnects the graph. Le and Pfender showed that all graphs with nn vertices and 2n32n-3 edges without stable cutset arise recursively glueing together triangles and triangular prisms along an edge or triangle. Le and Pfender's proof contains a gap, which we fill in the present article.

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@article{arxiv.2412.00337,
  title  = {Revisiting Extremal Graphs Having No Stable Cutsets},
  author = {Johannes Rauch and Dieter Rautenbach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.00337},
  year   = {2024}
}
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