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The saturation number for unions of four cliques

Combinatorics 2024-08-22 v1

Abstract

A graph GG is HH-saturated if HH is not a subgraph of GG but HH is a subgraph of G+eG + e for any edge ee in G\overline{G}. The saturation number sat(n,H)sat(n,H) for a graph HH is the minimal number of edges in any HH-saturated graph of order nn. The sat(n,Kp1Kp2Kp3)sat(n, K_{p_1} \cup K_{p_2} \cup K_{p_3}) with p3p1+p2p_3 \ge p_1 + p_2 was given in [Discrete Math. 347 (2024) 113868]. In this paper, sat(n,Kp1Kp2Kp3Kp4)sat(n,K_{p_1} \cup K_{p_2} \cup K_{p_3} \cup K_{p_4}) with pi+1pip1p_{i+1} - p_i \ge p_1 for 2i32 \le i\le 3 and 4p1p24\le p_1\le p_2 is determined.

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@article{arxiv.2408.11644,
  title  = {The saturation number for unions of four cliques},
  author = {Ruo-Xuan Li and Rong-Xia Hao and Zhen He and Wen-Han Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.11644},
  year   = {2024}
}

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