Finding Balance: Split Graphs and Related Classes

  • Karen L. Collins
  • Ann N. Trenk
Keywords: Split graph, Set cover, Bipartite graph, Bipartite poset, Bijection

Abstract

A graph is a split graph if its vertex set can be partitioned into a clique and a stable set. A split graph is unbalanced if there exist two such partitions that are distinct. Cheng, Collins and Trenk (2016), discovered the following interesting counting fact: unlabeled, unbalanced split graphs on $n$ vertices can be placed into a bijection with all unlabeled split graphs on $n-1$ or fewer vertices. In this paper we translate these concepts and the theorem to different combinatorial settings: minimal set covers, bipartite graphs with a distinguished block and posets of height one.
Published
2018-03-29
Article Number
P1.73