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On induced saturation for paths

Combinatorics 2019-07-15 v1

Abstract

For a graph HH, a graph GG is HH-induced-saturated if GG does not contain an induced copy of HH, but either removing an edge from GG or adding a non-edge to GG creates an induced copy of HH. Depending on the graph HH, an HH-induced-saturated graph does not necessarily exist. In fact, Martin and Smith (2012) showed that P4P_4-induced-saturated graphs do not exist, where PkP_k denotes a path on kk vertices. Axenovich and Csik\'{o}s (2019) asked the existence of PkP_k-induced-saturated graphs for k5k \ge 5; it is easy to construct such graphs when k{2,3}k\in\{2, 3\}. Recently, R\"{a}ty constructed a graph that is P6P_6-induced-saturated. In this paper, we show that there exists a PkP_{k}-induced-saturated graph for infinitely many values of kk. To be precise, we find a P3nP_{3n}-induced-saturated graph for every positive integer nn. As a consequence, for each positive integer nn, we construct infinitely many P3nP_{3n}-induced-saturated graphs. We also show that the Kneser graph K(n,2)K(n,2) is P6P_6-induced-saturated for every n5n\ge 5.

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@article{arxiv.1907.05546,
  title  = {On induced saturation for paths},
  author = {Eun-Kyung Cho and Ilkyoo Choi and Boram Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.05546},
  year   = {2019}
}
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