Title
Unavoidable induced subgraphs in large graphs with no homogeneous sets
Abstract
A homogeneous set of an n-vertex graph is a set X of vertices ( 2 ¿ | X | ¿ n - 1 ) such that every vertex not in X is either complete or anticomplete to X. A graph is called prime if it has no homogeneous set. A chain of length t is a sequence of t + 1 vertices such that for every vertex in the sequence except the first one, its immediate predecessor is its unique neighbor or its unique non-neighbor among all of its predecessors. We prove that for all n, there exists N such that every prime graph with at least N vertices contains one of the following graphs or their complements as an induced subgraph: (1) the graph obtained from K 1 , n by subdividing every edge once, (2) the line graph of K 2 , n , (3) the line graph of the graph in (1), (4) the half-graph of height n, (5) a prime graph induced by a chain of length n, (6) two particular graphs obtained from the half-graph of height n by making one side a clique and adding one vertex.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.jctb.2016.01.008
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
Keywords
Field
DocType
Modular decomposition,Induced subgraph,Prime graph,Ramsey
Discrete mathematics,Wheel graph,Block graph,Combinatorics,Circulant graph,Vertex (graph theory),Cycle graph,Neighbourhood (graph theory),Factor-critical graph,Mathematics,Complement graph
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
118
C
J. Combin. Theory, Ser. B, 118(May 2016), pp. 1-12
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.51
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maria Chudnovsky139046.13
ringi kim272.96
Sang-il Oum366837.80
Paul Seymour440.89