On the Existence of Critical Clique-Helly Graphs

A graph is clique-Helly if any family of mutually intersecting cliques has non-empty intersection. Dourado, Protti and Szwarcfiter conjectured that every clique-Helly graph contains a vertex whose removal maintains it a clique-Helly graph. We will present a counterexample to this conjecture.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Alcón, Liliana Graciela, Pizaña, Miguel, Ravenna, Gabriela Susana
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Repositorio:SEDICI (UNLP)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/102977
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/102977
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Matemática
Helly property
Clique-Helly graphs
Clique graphs
Descripción
Sumario:A graph is clique-Helly if any family of mutually intersecting cliques has non-empty intersection. Dourado, Protti and Szwarcfiter conjectured that every clique-Helly graph contains a vertex whose removal maintains it a clique-Helly graph. We will present a counterexample to this conjecture.