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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"forbidden subgraph"”.
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A Forbidden Subgraph Characterization Problem and a Minimal-Element Subset of Universal Graph Classes
… In this paper we show that if each H_i has a forbidden subgraph characterization then the direct sum and join of these H_i also have forbidden subgraph characterizations. We provide various results which in many cases allow us to exactly determine the minimal forbidden subgraphs for such …
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The Minimum Rank Problem Over Finite Fields
… bound for the number of vertices in a minimal forbidden subgraph for the graphs having minimum rank at most 3 over the finite field of order 2. We also list all 62 such minimal forbidden subgraphs and show that many of these are minimal forbidden subgraphs for any field. Our second main result …
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Extremal problems in disjoint cycles and graph saturation
… conditions for the existence of particular subgraphs in a graph, and variations on graph saturation. Determining whether a graph contains a certain subgraph is a computationally difficult problem; as such, sufficient conditions for the existence of a given subgraph are prized. In Chapter 2, …
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Problems in extremal graph theory
… {\it minor} of $G$ if $H$ can be obtained from a subgraph of $G$ by contracting edges. We show that the upper bound for $\chi(G^2)$ conjectured by Wegner (1977) for planar graphs holds when $G$ is a $K_4$-minor-free graph. We also show that $\chi(G^2)$ is equal to the bound only when $G^2$ …