Altan derivatives of polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons were recently introduced and studied in theoretical organic chemistry. We now provide a generalization of the altan concept, applicable to any graph. Several earlier noticed topological properties of altan derivatives of polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons are shown to be the properties of all altan derivatives of all graphs. Among these ar...

Perfect graphs, by definition, have a nice structure, that graph searching seems to extract in a, often non-inexpensive, manner. We scratch the surface of this elegant research area by giving two examples: Lexicographic Breadth Search on Chordal Graphs, and Lexicographic Depth First Search on Cocomparability graphs.

We define a diamonded odd cycle to be an odd cycle C with exactly two chords and either a) C has length five and the two chords are non-crossing; or b) C has length greater than five and has chords (x,y) and (x,z) with (y,z) an edge of C and there exists a node w not on C adjacent to y and C, but not x. In this paper, we show that given a diamonded odd cycle-free graph G, G is perfect if and on...

In 1979, two constructions for making partitionable graphs were introduced in (by Chv2 atal et al. (Ann. Discrete Math. 21 (1984) 197)). The graphs produced by the second construction are called CGPW graphs. A near-factorization (A; B) of a %nite group is roughly speaking a non-trivial factorization of G minus one element into two subsets A and B. Every CGPW graph with n vertices turns out to b...

Neighborhood-perfect graphs form a subclass of the perfect graphs if the Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture of C. Berge is true. However, they are still not shown to be perfect. Here we propose the characterization of neighborhood-perfect graphs by studying minimal non-neighborhood-perfect graphs (MNNPG). After presenting some properties of MNNPGs, w e show that the only MNNPGs with neighborhood i...

A multicone graph is defined to be join of a clique and a regular graph. A graph $ G $ is cospectral with graph $ H $ if their adjacency matrices have the same eigenvalues. A graph $ G $ is said to be determined by its spectrum or DS for short, if for any graph $ H $ with $ Spec(G)=Spec(H)$, we conclude that $ G $ is isomorphic to $ H $. In this paper, we present new classes of multicone graphs...