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Transversals of Longest Paths

Discrete Mathematics 2017-12-20 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let \lpt(G)\lpt(G) be the minimum cardinality of a set of vertices that intersects all longest paths in a graph GG. Let ω(G)\omega(G) be the size of a maximum clique in GG, and \tw(G)\tw(G) be the treewidth of GG. We prove that \lpt(G)max{1,ω(G)2} \lpt(G) \leq \max\{1,\omega(G)-2\} when GG is a connected chordal graph; that \lpt(G)=1\lpt(G) =1 when GG is a connected bipartite permutation graph or a connected full substar graph; and that \lpt(G)\tw(G)\lpt(G) \leq \tw(G) for any connected graph GG.

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@article{arxiv.1712.07086,
  title  = {Transversals of Longest Paths},
  author = {Márcia R. Cerioli and Cristina G. Fernandes and Renzo Gómez and Juan Gutiérrez and Paloma T. Lima},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.07086},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

19 pages, 9 figures

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