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Weighted Well-Covered Claw-Free Graphs
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(n^6)algortihm,
whose input is a claw-free graph G, and output is the vector space of weight
functions w, for which G is w-well-covered. A graph G is equimatchable if all
its maximal matchings are of the same cardinality. Assume that a weight
function w is defined on the edges of G. Then G is w-equimatchable if all its
maximal matchings are of the same weight. For every graph G, the set of weight
functions w such that G is w-equimatchable is a vector space. We present an
O(m*n^4 + n^5*log(n)) algorithm which receives an input graph G, and outputs
the vector space of weight functions w such that G is w-equimatchable.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figur
Computing Well-Covered Vector Spaces of Graphs using Modular Decomposition
A graph is well-covered if all its maximal independent sets have the same
cardinality. This well studied concept was introduced by Plummer in 1970 and
naturally generalizes to the weighted case. Given a graph , a real-valued
vertex weight function is said to be a well-covered weighting of if all
its maximal independent sets are of the same weight. The set of all
well-covered weightings of a graph forms a vector space over the field of
real numbers, called the well-covered vector space of . Since the problem of
recognizing well-covered graphs is --complete, the
problem of computing the well-covered vector space of a given graph is
--hard. Levit and Tankus showed in 2015 that the
problem admits a polynomial-time algorithm in the class of claw-free graph. In
this paper, we give two general reductions for the problem, one based on
anti-neighborhoods and one based on modular decomposition, combined with
Gaussian elimination. Building on these results, we develop a polynomial-time
algorithm for computing the well-covered vector space of a given fork-free
graph, generalizing the result of Levit and Tankus. Our approach implies that
well-covered fork-free graphs can be recognized in polynomial time and also
generalizes some known results on cographs.Comment: 25 page
Matchings, coverings, and Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity
We show that the co-chordal cover number of a graph G gives an upper bound
for the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of the associated edge ideal. Several
known combinatorial upper bounds of regularity for edge ideals are then easy
consequences of covering results from graph theory, and we derive new upper
bounds by looking at additional covering results.Comment: 12 pages; v4 has minor changes for publicatio
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