Retract-collapsible graphs and invariant subgraph properties
Retract-collapsible graphs and invariant subgraph properties
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收缩折叠图和不变子图属性
DOI:
10.1002/jgt.3190190105
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发表时间:
1995
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N. Polat
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N. Polat
A (finite or infinite) graph G is retract-collapsible if it can be dismantled by deleting systematically at each step every vertex that is strictly dominated, in such a way that the remaining subgraph is a retract of G, and so as to get a simplex at the end. A graph is subretract-collapsible if some graph obtained by planting some rayless tree at each of its vertices is retract-collapsible. It is shown that the subretract-colapsible graphs are cop-win; and that a ball-Helly graph is subretract-collapsible if and only if it has no isometric infinite paths (thus in particular if it has no infinite paths, or if it is bounded). Several fixed subgraph properties are proved. In particular, if G is a subretract-collapsible graph, and f a contraction from G into G, then (i) if G has no infinite simplices, then f(S) = S for some simplex S of G; and (ii) if the dismantling of G can be achieved in a finite number of steps and if some family of simplices of G has a compacity property, then there is a simplex S of G such that f(S) ⊆ S. This last result generalizes a property of bounded ball-Helly graphs. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.