Unavoidable induced subgraphs in large graphs with no homogeneous sets
Abstract
A homogeneous set of an -vertex graph is a set of vertices () such that every vertex not in is either complete or anticomplete to . A graph is called prime if it has no homogeneous set. A chain of length is a sequence of vertices such that for every vertex in the sequence except the first one, its immediate predecessor is its unique neighbor or its unique non-neighbor among all of its predecessors. We prove that for all , there exists such that every prime graph with at least vertices contains one of the following graphs or their complements as an induced subgraph: (1) the graph obtained from by subdividing every edge once, (2) the line graph of , (3) the line graph of the graph in (1), (4) the half-graph of height , (5) a prime graph induced by a chain of length , (6) two particular graphs obtained from the half-graph of height by making one side a clique and adding one vertex.
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@article{arxiv.1504.05322,
title = {Unavoidable induced subgraphs in large graphs with no homogeneous sets},
author = {Maria Chudnovsky and Ringi Kim and Sang-il Oum and Paul Seymour},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.05322},
year = {2016}
}
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13 pages, 3 figures