Claw-Free Solid Bricks
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.