A clique-transversal of a graph G is a subset of vertices that meets all the cliques of G. A clique-independent set is a collection of pairwise vertex-disjoint cliques. The clique-transversal number and clique-independence number of G are the sizes of a minimum clique-transversal and a maximum clique-independent set of G, respectively. A graph G is clique-perfect if these two numbers are equal ...

A clique-transversal of a graph G is a subset of vertices that meets all the cliques of G. A clique-independent set is a collection of pairwise vertex-disjoint cliques. A graph G is clique-perfect if the sizes of a minimum clique-transversal and a maximum clique-independent set are equal for every induced subgraph of G. The list of minimal forbidden induced subgraphs for the class of clique-per...

This paper originally proposes the clique-graph and further presents a clique-graph matching method by preserving global and local structures. Especially, we formulate the objective function of clique-graph matching with respective to two latent variables, the clique information in the original graph and the pairwise clique correspondence constrained by the one-to-one matching. Since the object...

A graph is clique-Helly if any family of mutually intersecting (maximal) cliques has non-empty intersection, and it is hereditary clique-Helly (abbreviated HCH) if its induced subgraphs are clique-Helly. The clique graph of a graph G is the intersection graph of its cliques, and G is self-clique if it is connected and isomorphic to its clique graph. We show that every HCH graph is an induced su...

A k-path power is the k-power graph of a simple path of arbitrary length. Path powers form a non-trivial subclass of proper interval graphs. Their clique-width is not bounded by a constant, and no polynomial-time algorithm is known for computing their clique-width or linear clique-width. We show that k-path powers above a certain size have linear clique-width exactly k + 2, providing the first ...

let r be a fnite commutative ring and n(r) be the set of non unit elements of r. the non unit graph of r, denoted by gamma(r), is the graph obtained by setting all the elements of n(r) to be the vertices and defning distinct vertices x and y to be adjacent if and only if x - yin n(r). in this paper, the basic properties of gamma(r) are investigated and some characterization results regarding co...