Vincent Guingona , Felix Nusbaum , Zain Padamsee , Miriam Parnes , Christian Pippin , Ava Zinman
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Abstract
We examine indivisibility for classes of graphs. We show that the class of hereditarily α-sparse graphs is indivisible if and only if . Additionally, we show that the following classes of graphs are indivisible: perfect graphs, cographs, and chordal graphs, and the following classes of graphs are not indivisible: threshold graphs, split graphs, and distance-hereditary graphs.
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Discrete Mathematics provides a common forum for significant research in many areas of discrete mathematics and combinatorics. Among the fields covered by Discrete Mathematics are graph and hypergraph theory, enumeration, coding theory, block designs, the combinatorics of partially ordered sets, extremal set theory, matroid theory, algebraic combinatorics, discrete geometry, matrices, and discrete probability theory.
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