A graph G is well-covered if all its maximal independent sets are of the same cardinality. Assume that a weight function w is defined on its vertices. Then G is w-well-covered if all maximal independent sets are of the same weight. For every graph G, the set of weight functions w such that G is w-well-covered is a vector space. Given an input claw-free graph G, we present an O (

A graph is well-covered if every maximal independent set has the same cardinality. The recognition problem of well-covered graphs is known to be co-NP-complete. Let w be a weight function defined on the vertices of G. Then G is w-well-covered if all maximal independent sets of G are of the same weight. The set of weight functions w for which a graph is w-well-covered is a vector space. We prove...

The independence polynomial i(G, x) of a graph G is the generating function of the numbers of independent sets of each size. A graph of order n is very well-covered if every maximal independent set has size n/2. Levit and Mandrescu conjectured that the independence polynomial of every very well-covered graph is unimodal (that is, the sequence of coefficients is nondecreasing, then nonincreasing...

A graph G is a Zm-well-covered graph if |I1| ≡ |I2| (modm) for all maximal independent sets I1 and I2 in V (G) [3]. The recognition problem of Zm-well-covered graphs is a Co-NP-Complete problem. We give a characterization of Zm-well-covered graphs for chordal, simplicial and circular arc graphs. c © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

If sk denotes the number of stable sets of cardinality k in graph G, and α(G) is the size of a maximum stable set, then I(G;x) = α(G) ∑ k=0 skx k is the independence polynomial of G (Gutman and Harary, 1983). A graph G is very well-covered (Favaron, 1982) if it has no isolated vertices, its order equals 2α(G) and it is well-covered (i.e., all its maximal independent sets are of the same size, M...

‎in this paper we give a characterization of unmixed tripartite‎ ‎graphs under certain conditions which is a generalization of a‎ ‎result of villarreal on bipartite graphs‎. ‎for bipartite graphs two‎ ‎different characterizations were given by ravindra and villarreal‎. ‎we show that these two characterizations imply each other‎.

We give an alternative characterization for well-covered graphs and restrict this to a characterization for very well covered graphs. We state the conditions under which the intersection of a pair of maximal independent sets of a well-covered graph is maximal and use this result to deene and characterize two recursively decomposable sub-classes of well-covered graphs, one properly containing th...

A maximum independent set of vertices in a graph is a set of pairwise nonadjacent vertices of largest cardinality . Plummer [Some covering concepts in graphs, J. Combin. Theory 8 (1970) 91–98] defined a graph to be well-covered, if every independent set is contained in a maximum independent set of G. Every well-covered graph G without isolated vertices has a perfect [1, 2]-factor FG, i.e. a spa...