<p>A 3-connected graph is a <i>brick</i> if the graph obtained from it by deleting any two distinct vertices has a perfect matching. The importance of bricks stems from the fact that they are the building blocks of matching covered graphs. An edge cut <i>C</i> of a matching covered graph <i>G</i> is separating if the two <i>C</i>-contractions of <i>G</i> are matching covered. A brick is solid if it does not have any nontrivial separating cuts. Solid bricks have many interesting properties, but the complexity of determining whether a given brick is solid remains unknown. In this paper, we characterize all the claw-free solid bricks.</p>

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Claw-Free Solid Bricks

  • Jinqiu Zhou,
  • Xing Feng,
  • Weigen Yan

摘要

A 3-connected graph is a brick if the graph obtained from it by deleting any two distinct vertices has a perfect matching. The importance of bricks stems from the fact that they are the building blocks of matching covered graphs. An edge cut C of a matching covered graph G is separating if the two C-contractions of G are matching covered. A brick is solid if it does not have any nontrivial separating cuts. Solid bricks have many interesting properties, but the complexity of determining whether a given brick is solid remains unknown. In this paper, we characterize all the claw-free solid bricks.