Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8902913 Discrete Mathematics 2018 18 Pages PDF
Abstract
The graphs with no five-vertex induced path are still not understood. But in the triangle-free case, we can do this and one better; we give an explicit construction for all triangle-free graphs with no six-vertex induced path. Here are three examples: the 16-vertex Clebsch graph, the graph obtained from an 8-cycle by making opposite vertices adjacent, and the graph obtained from a complete bipartite graph by subdividing a perfect matching. We show that every connected triangle-free graph with no six-vertex induced path is an induced subgraph of one of these three (modulo some twinning and duplication).
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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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