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Split Graphs Having Dilworth Number Two

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Stephane Foldes
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Peter L. Hammer
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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Abstract

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All graphs considered in this paper are finite, undirected, loopless and without multiple edges.

The vertex set and the edge set of a graph G will be denoted by V(G) and E(G)y respectively. Thus we have

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1977

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