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Clique separator decomposition introduced by Tarjan and Whitesides is one of the most important graph decompositions. A graph is an {\em atom} if it has no clique separator. A {\em hole} is a chordless cycle with at least five vertices, and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-05-17 Andreas Brandstädt , Vassilis Giakoumakis

A hole in a graph $G$ is an induced cycle of length at least four, and an even hole is a hole of even length. The diamond is the graph obtained from the complete graph $K_4$ by removing an edge. A pyramid is a graph consisting of a triangle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl

A diamond is the graph that is obtained from removing an edge from the complete graph on $4$ vertices. A ($C_4$,diamond)-free graph is a graph that does not contain a diamond or a cycle on four vertices as induced subgraphs. Let $G$ be a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Ruy Fabila-Monroy , Ana Laura Trujillo-Negrete

A {\em hole} in a graph is an induced subgraph which is a cycle of length at least four. A hole is called {\em even} if it has an even number of vertices. An {\em even-hole-free} graph is a graph with no even holes. A vertex of a graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Maria Chudnovsky , Paul Seymour

A {\em hole} is a chordless cycle of length at least four. A hole is {\em even} (resp. {\em odd}) if it contains an even (resp. odd) number of vertices. A \emph{cap} is a graph induced by a hole with an additional vertex that is adjacent to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Shenwei Huang , Murilo V. G. da Silva

We consider the class of (C4, diamond)-free graphs; graphs in this class do not contain a C4 or a diamond as an induced subgraph. We provide an efficient recognition algorithm for this class. We count the number of maximal cliques in a (C4,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-09-28 Elaine M. Eschen , Chinh T. Hoang , Jeremy P. Spinrad , R. Sritharan

A hole is a chordless cycle with at least four vertices. A hole is odd if it has an odd number of vertices. A dart is a graph which vertices $a, b, c, d, e$ and edges $ab, bc, bd, be, cd, de$. Dart-free graphs have been actively studied in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Chính T. Hoàng

A hole is a chordless cycle with at least four vertices. A pan is a graph which consists of a hole and a single vertex with precisely one neighbor on the hole. An even hole is a hole with an even number of vertices. We prove that a (pan,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Kathie Cameron , Steven Chaplick , Chinh T. Hoang

A \emph{hole} is a chordless cycle of length at least $4$. A graph is \emph{even-hole-free} if it does not contain any hole of even length as an induced subgraph. In this paper, we study the class of even-hole-free graphs with no star…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Ngoc Khang Le

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

A hole in a graph is a chordless cycle of length at least 4. A theta is a graph formed by three internally vertex-disjoint paths of length at least 2 between the same pair of distinct vertices. A wheel is a graph formed by a hole and a node…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Marko Radovanović , Nicolas Trotignon , Kristina Vušković

A graph is even-hole-free if it has no induced even cycles of length 4 or more. A cap is a cycle of length at least 5 with exactly one chord and that chord creates a triangle with the cycle. In this paper, we consider (cap, even hole)-free…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Kathie Cameron , Murilo V. G. da Silva , Shenwei Huang , Kristina Vušković

A wheel is a graph that consists of a chordless cycle of length at least 4 plus a vertex with at least three neighbors on the cycle. It was shown recently that detecting induced wheels is an NP-complete problem. In contrast, it is shown…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-27 Frédéric Maffray

The diamond is the graph obtained by removing an edge from the complete graph on 4 vertices. A graph is ($P_6$, diamond)-free if it contains no induced subgraph isomorphic to a six-vertex path or a diamond. In this paper we show that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Jan Goedgebeur , Shenwei Huang , Yiao Ju , Owen Merkel

A \emph{hole} in a graph is an induced cycle with at least 4 vertices. A graph is \emph{even-hole-free} if it does not contain a hole on an even number of vertices. A \emph{pyramid} is a graph made of three chordless paths $P_1 = a \dots…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Maria Chudnovsky , Stéphan Thomassé , Nicolas Trotignon , Kristina Vušković

An even-cycle decomposition of a graph G is a partition of E(G) into cycles of even length. Evidently, every Eulerian bipartite graph has an even-cycle decomposition. Seymour (1981) proved that every 2-connected loopless Eulerian planar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Tony Huynh , Sang-il Oum , Maryam Verdian-Rizi

A hole is an induced cycle of length at least 4, and an odd hole is a hole of odd length. It is NP-hard to color the vertices of an odd hole-free graph. A graph $G$ is perfectly divisible if every induced subgraph $H$ of $G$ with at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Weihua He , Yueping Shi , Rong Wu , Zheng-an Yao

We prove a conjecture of Sintiari and Trotignon that every even-hole-free graph of sufficiently large treewidth contains a four-vertex induced subgraph with at least five edges (that is, either the four-vertex complete graph or the unique…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Bogdan Alecu , Maria Chudnovsky , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl

A hole in a graph is a chordless cycle of length at least 4. A theta is a graph formed by three paths between the same pair of distinct vertices so that the union of any two of the paths induces a hole. A wheel is a graph formed by a hole…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Marko Radovanović , Nicolas Trotignon , Kristina Vušković

We present a class of (diamond, even hole)-free graphs with no clique cutset that has unbounded rank-width. In general, even-hole-free graphs have unbounded rank-width, because chordal graphs are even-hole-free. A.A. da Silva, A. Silva and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Isolde Adler , Ngoc Khang Le , Haiko Müller , Marko Radovanović , Nicolas Trotignon , Kristina Vušković
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