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Strongly Perfect Claw-free Graphs -- A Short Proof

Combinatorics 2020-11-10 v2

Abstract

A graph is strongly perfect if every induced subgraph H has a stable set that meets every maximal clique of H. A graph is claw-free if no vertex has three pairwise non-adjacent neighbors. The characterization of claw-free graphs that are strongly perfect by a set of forbidden induced subgraphs was conjectured by Ravindra in 1990 and was proved by Wang in 2006. Here we give a shorter proof of this characterization.

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@article{arxiv.1912.05645,
  title  = {Strongly Perfect Claw-free Graphs -- A Short Proof},
  author = {Maria Chudnovsky and Cemil Dibek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.05645},
  year   = {2020}
}
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