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Perfectly Colorable Graphs

Combinatorics 2011-08-15 v3

Abstract

We define a perfect coloring of a graph GG as a proper coloring of GG such that every connected induced subgraph HH of GG uses exactly ω(H)\omega(H) many colors where ω(H)\omega(H) is the clique number of HH. A graph is perfectly colorable if it admits a perfect coloring. We show that the class of perfectly colorable graphs is exactly the class of perfect paw-free graphs. It follows that perfectly colorable graphs can be recognized and colored in linear time.

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@article{arxiv.1101.3494,
  title  = {Perfectly Colorable Graphs},
  author = {R B Sandeep},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.3494},
  year   = {2011}
}

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2 pages, 1 figure

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