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Dominating cycles and forbidden pairs containing a path of order 5

Authors :
Chiba, Shuya
Furuya, Michitaka
Tsuchiya, Shoichi
Publication Year :
2015

Abstract

A cycle is a graph is dominating if every edge of the graph is incident with a vertex of the cycle. In this paper, we investigate the characterization of the class of the forbidden pairs guaranteeing the existence of a dominating cycle and show the following two results: (i) Every $2$-connected $\{P_{5}, K_{4}^{-}\}$-free graph contains a longest cycle which is a dominating cycle. (ii) Every $2$-connected $\{P_{5}, W^{*}\}$-free graph contains a longest cycle which is a dominating cycle. Here $P_{5}$ is the path of order $5$, $K_{4}^{-}$ is the graph obtained from the complete graph of order $4$ by removing one edge, and $W^{*}$ is a graph obtained from two triangles and an edge by identifying one vertex in each.<br />Comment: 17pages, 7 figures

Subjects

Subjects :
Mathematics - Combinatorics

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1502.02933
Document Type :
Working Paper