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We give a simple proof that the straightforward generalisation of clique-width to arbitrary structures can be unbounded on structures of bounded tree-width. This can be corrected by allowing fusion of elements.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-06-03 Hans Adler , Isolde Adler

Daligault, Rao and Thomass\'e asked whether every hereditary graph class that is well-quasi-ordered by the induced subgraph relation has bounded clique-width. Lozin, Razgon and Zamaraev (JCTB 2017+) gave a negative answer to this question,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Konrad K. Dabrowski , Vadim V. Lozin , Daniël Paulusma

Barbieri recently showed that the finite graphs realising any given finite automorphism group have unbounded genus, answering a question of Cornwell et al. In this note we give a short proof of a stronger result: they have unbounded clique…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-20 John Haslegrave

Clique-width is a graph invariant that has been widely studied in combinatorics and computer science. However, computing the clique-width of a graph is an intricate problem, the exact clique-width is not known even for very small graphs. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-30 Marijn J. H. Heule , Stefan Szeider

The clique-width is a measure of complexity of decomposing graphs into certain tree-like structures. The class of graphs with bounded clique-width contains bounded tree-width graphs. We give a polynomial time graph isomorphism algorithm for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Bireswar Das , Murali Krishna Enduri , I. Vinod Reddy

Extending several previous results we obtained nearly tight estimates on the maximum size of a clique-minor in various classes of expanding graphs. These results can be used to show that graphs without short cycles and other H-free graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-03 Michael Krivelevich , Benny Sudakov

A graph is $H$-free if it has no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H$. Brandst\"adt, Engelfriet, Le and Lozin proved that the class of chordal graphs with independence number at most 3 has unbounded clique-width. Brandst\"adt, Le and Mosca…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Andreas Brandstädt , Konrad K. Dabrowski , Shenwei Huang , Daniël Paulusma

We introduce H-clique-width, a new structural measure of graphs that aims to provide a hereditary analogue of the traditional graph product structure. The definition naturally generalises the ordinary clique-width concept. As a result, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Petr Hliněný , Jan Jedelský

For a clique cover $C$ in the undirected graph $G$, the clique cover graph of $C$ is the graph obtained by contracting the vertices of each clique in $C$ into a single vertex. The clique cover width of G, denoted by $CCW(G)$, is the minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-26 Farhad Shahrokhi

If a graph has no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H_1$ or $H_2$ then it is said to be ($H_1,H_2$)-free. Dabrowski and Paulusma found 13 open cases for the question whether the clique-width of ($H_1,H_2$)-free graphs is bounded. One of them…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Andreas Brandstadt , Suhail Mahfud , Raffaele Mosca

A $P_4$ is a chordless path on four vertices. A diamond is a graph obtained from a clique of size four by removing one edge of the clique. A paw is a graph obtained from a clique of size four by removing two adjacent edges of the clique. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Paweł Rafał Bieliński , Jadwiga Czyżewska , Martin Milanič , Amir Nikabadi , Paweł Rzążewski

We say that a hereditary graph class $\mathcal{G}$ is \emph{clique-sparse} if there is a constant $k=k(\mathcal{G})$ such that for every graph $G\in\mathcal{G}$, every vertex of $G$ belongs to at most $k$ maximal cliques, and any maximal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-28 J. Pascal Gollin , Meike Hatzel , Sebastian Wiederrecht

Given two graphs $H_1$ and $H_2$, a graph $G$ is $(H_1,H_2)$-free if it contains no subgraph isomorphic to $H_1$ or $H_2$. We continue a recent study into the clique-width of $(H_1,H_2)$-free graphs and present three new classes of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-01-14 Konrad K. Dabrowski , Shenwei Huang , Daniël Paulusma

A class of graphs G is chi-bounded if the chromatic number of graphs in G is bounded by a function of the clique number. We show that if a class G is chi-bounded,then every class of graphs admitting a decomposition along cuts of small rank…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-13 Zdenek Dvorak , Daniel Kral

A k-clique covering of a simple graph G, is an edge covering of G by its cliques such that each vertex is contained in at most k cliques. The smallest k for which G admits a k-clique covering is called local clique cover number of G and is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-26 Ramin Javadi , Zeinab Maleki , Behnaz Omoomi

A bound on consecutive clique numbers of graphs is established. This bound is evaluated and shown to often be much better than the bound of the Kruskal-Katona theorem. A bound on non-consecutive clique numbers is also proven.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-23 Andy Frohmader

We construct classes of graphs that are variants of the so-called layered wheel. One of their key properties is that while the treewidth is bounded by a function of the clique number, the construction can be adjusted to make the dependance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Maria Chudnovsky , Nicolas Trotignon

We prove that a hereditary class of graphs is $(\mathsf{tw}, \omega)$-bounded if and only if the induced minors of the graphs from the class form a $(\mathsf{tw}, \omega)$-bounded class.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Claire Hilaire , Martin Milanič , Nicolas Trotignon , Djordje Vasić

Hypergraphs are an invaluable tool to understand many hidden patterns in large data sets. Among many ways to represent hypergraph, one useful representation is that of weighted clique expansion. In this paper, we consider this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Ashwin Guha , Ambedkar Dukkipati

In this paper we obtain some upper bounds for $b$-chromatic number of $K_{1,t}$ -free graphs, graphs with given minimum clique partition and bipartite graphs. These bounds are in terms of either clique number or chromatic number of graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mekkia Kouider , Manouchehr Zaker