An Ore-type condition for arbitrarily vertex decomposable graphs
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Let G be a graph of order n and r , 1 ≤ r ≤ n, a fixed integer. G is said to be r -vertex decomposable if for each sequence (n1, . . . , nr ) of positive integers such that n1 + · · · + nr = n there exists a partition (V1, . . . , Vr ) of the vertex set of G such that for each i ∈ {1, . . . , r}, Vi induces a connected subgraph of G on ni vertices. G is called arbitrarily vertex decomposable if it is r -vertex decomposable for each r ∈ {1, . . . , n}. In this paper we show that if G is a connected graph on n vertices with the independence number at most dn/2e and such that the degree sum of any pair of non-adjacent vertices is at least n − 3, then G is arbitrarily vertex decomposable or isomorphic to one of two exceptional graphs. We also exhibit the integers r for which the graphs verifying the above degree-sum condition are not r -vertex decomposable. c © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Discrete Mathematics
دوره 309 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005