TY - GEN
T1 - Well-Covered graphs and greedoids
AU - Levit, Vadim E.
AU - Mandrescu, Eugen Mandrescu
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - G is a well-covered graph provided all its maximal stable sets are of the same size (Plummer, 1970). S is a local maximum stable set of G, and we denote by S 2 a(G), if S is a maximum stable set of the subgraph induced by S [N(S), where N(S) is the neighborhood of S. In 2002 we have proved that a(G) is a greedoid for every forest G. The bipartite graphs and the triangle-free graphs, whose families of local maximum stable sets form greedoids were characterized by Levit and Mandrescu (2003, 2007a). In this paper we demonstrate that if a graph G has a perfect matching consisting of only pendant edges, then a(G) forms a greedoid on its vertex set. In particular, we infer that a(G) forms a greedoid for every well-covered graph G of girth at least 6, non-isomorphic to C 7.
AB - G is a well-covered graph provided all its maximal stable sets are of the same size (Plummer, 1970). S is a local maximum stable set of G, and we denote by S 2 a(G), if S is a maximum stable set of the subgraph induced by S [N(S), where N(S) is the neighborhood of S. In 2002 we have proved that a(G) is a greedoid for every forest G. The bipartite graphs and the triangle-free graphs, whose families of local maximum stable sets form greedoids were characterized by Levit and Mandrescu (2003, 2007a). In this paper we demonstrate that if a graph G has a perfect matching consisting of only pendant edges, then a(G) forms a greedoid on its vertex set. In particular, we infer that a(G) forms a greedoid for every well-covered graph G of girth at least 6, non-isomorphic to C 7.
KW - Greedoid
KW - Local maximum stable set
KW - Unique perfect matching
KW - Very well-covered graph
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SN - 9781920682583
T3 - Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series
BT - Theory of Computing 2008 - Proceedings of the Fourteenth Computing
T2 - Theory of Computing 2008 - 14th Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium, CATS 2008
Y2 - 22 January 2008 through 25 January 2008
ER -