TY - JOUR
T1 - W2-graphs and shedding vertices.
AU - Levit, Vadim E.
AU - Mandrescu, Eugen
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PY - 2017/8
Y1 - 2017/8
N2 - A graph is well-covered if all its maximal independent sets are of the same size (Plummer, 1970). A well-covered graph is 1-well-covered if the deletion of every vertex leaves a graph which is well-covered as well (Staples, 1975). A graph G belongs to class Wn if every n pairwise disjoint independent sets in G are included in n pairwise disjoint maximum independent sets (Staples, 1975). Clearly, W1 is the family of all well-covered graphs. It turns out that G∈W2 if and only if it is a 1-well-covered graph without isolated vertices. We show that deleting a shedding vertex does not change the maximum size of a maximal independent set including a given A∈Ind(G) in a graph G, where Ind(G) is the family of all the independent sets. Specifically, for well-covered graphs, it means that the vertex v is shedding if and only if G−v is well-covered.
AB - A graph is well-covered if all its maximal independent sets are of the same size (Plummer, 1970). A well-covered graph is 1-well-covered if the deletion of every vertex leaves a graph which is well-covered as well (Staples, 1975). A graph G belongs to class Wn if every n pairwise disjoint independent sets in G are included in n pairwise disjoint maximum independent sets (Staples, 1975). Clearly, W1 is the family of all well-covered graphs. It turns out that G∈W2 if and only if it is a 1-well-covered graph without isolated vertices. We show that deleting a shedding vertex does not change the maximum size of a maximal independent set including a given A∈Ind(G) in a graph G, where Ind(G) is the family of all the independent sets. Specifically, for well-covered graphs, it means that the vertex v is shedding if and only if G−v is well-covered.
KW - 1-well-covered graph
KW - differential of a set
KW - matching
KW - maximum independent set
KW - shedding vertex
KW - well-covered graph
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U2 - 10.1016/j.endm.2017.07.038
DO - 10.1016/j.endm.2017.07.038
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AN - SCOPUS:85026768586
SN - 1571-0653
VL - 61
SP - 797
EP - 803
JO - Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
JF - Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
ER -