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Well-edge-dominated graphs containing triangles

Combinatorics 2024-12-17 v1

Abstract

A set of edges FF in a graph GG is an edge dominating set if every edge in GG is either in FF or shares a vertex with an edge in FF. GG is said to be well-edge-dominated if all of its minimal edge dominating sets have the same cardinality. Recently it was shown that any triangle-free well-edge-dominated graph is either bipartite or in the set {C5,C7,C7}\{C_5, C_7, C_7^*\} where C7C_7^* is obtained from C7C_7 by adding a chord between any pair of vertices distance three apart. In this paper, we completely characterize all well-edge-dominated graphs containing exactly one triangle, of which there are two infinite families. We also prove that there are only eight well-edge-dominated outerplanar graphs, most of which contain at most one triangle.

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@article{arxiv.2412.10926,
  title  = {Well-edge-dominated graphs containing triangles},
  author = {Jake Berg and Perryn Chang and Claire Kaneshiro and Kirsti Kuenzel and Ryan Pellico and Isabel Renteria and Sumi Vora},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.10926},
  year   = {2024}
}
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