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Conference Papers Year : 2001

Bull-Reducible Berge Graphs are Perfect

Celina de Figueiredo
  • Function : Author
Sulamita Klein
  • Function : Author
Bruce Reed

Abstract

Berge's well known SPGC (Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture) states that the class of perfect graphs coincides with the class of graphs containing no induced odd cycle of length at least 5 or the complement of such a cycle. A graph in this second class is called Berge. A bull is a graph with five vertices x, a, b, c, d and five edges xa, xb, ab, ad, bc. A graph is bull-reducible if no vertex is in two bulls. We prove that every bull-reducible Berge graph is perfect and we exhibit a polynomial-time recognition algorithm for bull-reducible Berge graphs.
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inria-00100577 , version 1 (26-09-2006)

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Hazel Everett, Celina de Figueiredo, Sulamita Klein, Bruce Reed. Bull-Reducible Berge Graphs are Perfect. Euroconference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications - COMB'01, 2001, Barcelone, Spain, 3 p. ⟨inria-00100577⟩
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