Even-hole-free graphs still have bisimplicial vertices

Autor: Chudnovsky, Maria, Seymour, Paul
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B. 161:331-381
ISSN: 0095-8956
DOI: 10.1016/j.jctb.2023.02.009
Popis: A {\em hole} in a graph is an induced subgraph which is a cycle of length at least four. A hole is called {\em even} if it has an even number of vertices. An {\em even-hole-free} graph is a graph with no even holes. A vertex of a graph is {\em bisimplicial} if the set of its neighbours is the union of two cliques. In an earlier paper \cite{bisimplicial}, Addario-Berry, Havet and Reed, with the authors, claimed to prove a conjecture of Reed, that every even-hole-free graph has a bisimplicial vertex, but we have recently been shown that the "proof" has a serious error. Here we give a proof using a different method.
Databáze: OpenAIRE