ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
The decomposability of additive hereditary properties of graphs
Authors 1, 1
Affiliations
- Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Rand Afrikaans University, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006 South Africa
Abstract
An additive hereditary property of graphs is a class of simple graphs which is closed under unions, subgraphs and isomorphisms. If ₁,...,ₙ are properties of graphs, then a (₁,...,ₙ)-decomposition of a graph G is a partition E₁,...,Eₙ of E(G) such that , the subgraph of G induced by , is in , for i = 1,...,n. We define ₁ ⊕...⊕ ₙ as the property {G ∈ : G has a (₁,...,ₙ)-decomposition}. A property is said to be decomposable if there exist non-trivial hereditary properties ₁ and ₂ such that = ₁⊕ ₂. We study the decomposability of the well-known properties of graphs ₖ, ₖ, ₖ, ₖ, ₖ, ₖ and .
Keywords
property of graphs, additive, hereditary, decomposable property of graphs
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