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Hereditary graph classes: when the complexities of coloring and clique cover coincide (2018)
Journal Article
Blanché, A., Dabrowski, K., Johnson, M., & Paulusma, D. (2019). Hereditary graph classes: when the complexities of coloring and clique cover coincide. Journal of Graph Theory, 91(3), 267-289. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.22431

graph is (H1;H2)-free for a pair of graphs H1;H2 if it contains no induced subgraph isomorphic to H1 or H2. In 2001, Král’, Kratochvíl, Tuza, and Woeginger initiated a study into the complexity of Colouring for (H1;H2)-free graphs. Since then, others... Read More about Hereditary graph classes: when the complexities of coloring and clique cover coincide.

Connected Vertex Cover for (sP1+P5)-free graphs (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Johnson, M., Paesani, G., & Paulusma, D. (2018, June). Connected Vertex Cover for (sP1+P5)-free graphs. Presented at 44th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG 2018)., Cottbus, Germany

The Connected Vertex Cover problem is to decide if a graph G has a vertex cover of size at most k that induces a connected subgraph of G. This is a well-studied problem, known to be NP-complete for restricted graph classes, and, in particular, for H-... Read More about Connected Vertex Cover for (sP1+P5)-free graphs.

On a conjecture of Mohar concerning Kempe equivalence of regular graphs (2018)
Journal Article
Bonamy, M., Bousquet, N., Feghali, C., & Johnson, M. (2019). On a conjecture of Mohar concerning Kempe equivalence of regular graphs. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 135, 179-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jctb.2018.08.002

Let G be a graph with a vertex colouring α. Let a and b be two colours. Then a connected component of the subgraph induced by those vertices coloured either a or b is known as a Kempe chain. A colouring of G obtained from α by swapping the colours on... Read More about On a conjecture of Mohar concerning Kempe equivalence of regular graphs.

Independent Feedback Vertex Set for P5-free Graphs (2018)
Journal Article
Bonamy, M., Dabrowski, K., Feghali, C., Johnson, M., & Paulusma, D. (2018). Independent Feedback Vertex Set for P5-free Graphs. Algorithmica, 81(4), 1416-1449. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00453-018-0474-x

The NP-complete problem Feedback Vertex Set is that of deciding whether or not it is possible, for a given integer k≥0 , to delete at most k vertices from a given graph so that what remains is a forest. The variant in which the deleted vertices must... Read More about Independent Feedback Vertex Set for P5-free Graphs.

Erdős–Ko–Rado theorems for a family of trees (2018)
Journal Article
Feghali, C., Johnson, M., & Thomas, D. (2018). Erdős–Ko–Rado theorems for a family of trees. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 236, 464-471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2017.10.009

A family of sets is intersecting if any two sets in the family intersect. Given a graph and an integer , let denote the family of independent sets of size of . For a vertex of , let denote the family of independent sets of size that contain . This fa... Read More about Erdős–Ko–Rado theorems for a family of trees.

Surjective H-colouring: New hardness results (2018)
Journal Article
Golovach, P., Johnson, M., Martin, B., Paulusma, D., & Stewart, A. (2019). Surjective H-colouring: New hardness results. Computability, 8(1), 27-42. https://doi.org/10.3233/com-180084

A homomorphism from a graph G to a graph H is a vertex mapping f from the vertex set of G to the vertex set of H such that there is an edge between vertices f(u) and f(v) of H whenever there is an edge between vertices u and v of G. The H-Colouring p... Read More about Surjective H-colouring: New hardness results.

Enclosings of decompositions of complete multigraphs in 2-factorizations (2018)
Journal Article
Feghali, C., & Johnson, M. (2018). Enclosings of decompositions of complete multigraphs in 2-factorizations. Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 26(5), 205-218. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcd.21601

Let k, m, n, λ, and μ be positive integers. A decomposition of math formula into edge-disjoint subgraphs math formula is said to be enclosed by a decomposition of math formula into edge-disjoint subgraphs math formula if math formula and, after a sui... Read More about Enclosings of decompositions of complete multigraphs in 2-factorizations.

On the price of independence for vertex cover, feedback vertex set and odd cycle transversal (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dabrowski, K. K., Johnson, M., Paesani, G., Paulusma, D., & Zamaraev, V. (2018, August). On the price of independence for vertex cover, feedback vertex set and odd cycle transversal. Presented at 43nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2018)., Liverpool, UK

Let vc(G), fvs(G) and oct(G) denote, respectively, the size of a minimum vertex cover, minimum feedback vertex set and minimum odd cycle transversal in a graph G. One can ask, when looking for these sets in a graph, how much bigger might they be if w... Read More about On the price of independence for vertex cover, feedback vertex set and odd cycle transversal.