{"title":"Graph Operations Preserving W2-Property","authors":"Vadim E. Levit, Eugen Mandrescu","doi":"10.1016/j.endm.2018.06.007","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A graph is <em>well-covered</em> if all its maximal independent sets are of the same size (Plummer, 1970). A graph <em>G</em> belongs to class <strong>W</strong><sub><em>n</em></sub> if every <em>n</em> pairwise disjoint independent sets in <em>G</em> are included in <em>n</em> pairwise disjoint maximum independent sets (Staples, 1975). Clearly, <strong>W</strong><sub>1</sub> is the family of all well-covered graphs. Staples showed a number of ways to build graphs in <strong>W</strong><sub><em>n</em></sub>, using graphs from <strong>W</strong><sub><em>n</em></sub> or <strong>W</strong><sub><em>n</em>+1</sub>. In this paper, we construct some more infinite subfamilies of the class <strong>W</strong><sub><strong>2</strong></sub> by means of corona, join, and rooted product of graphs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35408,"journal":{"name":"Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.endm.2018.06.007","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571065318300982","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Mathematics","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A graph is well-covered if all its maximal independent sets are of the same size (Plummer, 1970). A graph G belongs to class Wn if every n pairwise disjoint independent sets in G are included in n pairwise disjoint maximum independent sets (Staples, 1975). Clearly, W1 is the family of all well-covered graphs. Staples showed a number of ways to build graphs in Wn, using graphs from Wn or Wn+1. In this paper, we construct some more infinite subfamilies of the class W2 by means of corona, join, and rooted product of graphs.
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