Unavoidable induced subgraphs in large graphs with no homogeneous sets

نویسندگان

  • Maria Chudnovsky
  • Ringi Kim
  • Sang-il Oum
  • Paul D. Seymour
چکیده

An n-vertex graph is prime if it has no homogeneous set, that is a set X of vertices (2 ≤ |X| ≤ n − 1) such that every vertex not in X is either complete or anticomplete to X. A chain of length t is a sequence of t+ 1 vertices such that for every vertex in the sequence except the first one, its immediate predecessor is its unique neighbor or its unique non-neighbor among all of its predecessors. We prove that for all n, there exists N such that every prime graph with at least N vertices contains one of the following graphs or their complements as an induced subgraph: (1) the graph obtained from K1,n by subdividing every edge once, (2) the line graph of K2,n, (3) the line graph of the graph in (1), (4) the half-graph of height n, (5) a prime graph induced by a chain of length n, (6) two particular graphs obtained from the half-graph of height n by making one side a clique and adding one vertex.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B

دوره 118  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016