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Vertex-Critical $(P_5, chair)$-Free Graphs

Combinatorics 2023-01-09 v1

Abstract

Given two graphs H1H_1 and H2H_2, a graph GG is (H1,H2)(H_1,H_2)-free if it contains no induced subgraph isomorphic to H1H_1 or H2H_2. A PtP_t is the path on tt vertices. A chair is a P4P_4 with an additional vertex adjacent to one of the middle vertices of the P4P_4. A graph GG is kk-vertex-critical if GG has chromatic number kk but every proper induced subgraph of GG has chromatic number less than kk. In this paper, we prove that there are finitely many 5-vertex-critical (P5,chair)(P_5,chair)-free graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2301.02436,
  title  = {Vertex-Critical $(P_5, chair)$-Free Graphs},
  author = {Shenwei Huang and Zeyu Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.02436},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

10 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2108.05492, arXiv:2005.03441

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