Graphs with No Induced Five-Vertex Path or Antipath

Maria Chudnovsky, Louis Esperet, Laetitia Lemoine, Peter Maceli, Frédéric Maffray, Irena Penev

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Abstract

We prove that a graph G contains no induced five-vertex path and no induced complement of a five-vertex path if and only if G is obtained from 5-cycles and split graphs by repeatedly applying the following operations: substitution, split unification, and split unification in the complement, where split unification is a new class-preserving operation introduced here.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)221-232
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Graph Theory
Volume84
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2017

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Geometry and Topology
  • Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

Keywords

  • P5
  • decomposition
  • forbidden subgraph

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