The structure of almost all graphs in a hereditary property
The structure of almost all graphs in a hereditary property
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遗传财产中几乎所有图形的结构
DOI:
10.1016/j.jctb.2010.10.001
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发表时间:
2009
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通讯作者:
R. Morris
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作者:
N. Alon;J. Balogh;B. Bollobás;R. Morris
A hereditary property of graphs is a collection of graphs which is closed under taking induced subgraphs. The speed of P is the function n↦|Pn|, where Pndenotes the graphs of order n in P. It was shown by Alekseev, and by Bollobás and Thomason, that if P is a hereditary property of graphs then where r=r(P)∈N is the so-called ‘colouring number’ of P. However, their results tell us very little about the structure of a typical graph G∈P. In this paper we describe the structure of almost every graph in a hereditary property of graphs, P. As a consequence, we derive essentially optimal bounds on the speed of P, improving the Alekseev–Bollobás–Thomason Theorem, and also generalising results of Balogh, Bollobás and Simonovits.