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On minimal nonperfectly divisible fork-free graphs

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arxiv 2504.14863 v3 pith:FX4UBK2Y submitted 2025-04-21 math.CO

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A fork is a graph obtained from $K_{1,3}$ (usually called claw) by subdividing an edge once. A graph is perfectly divisible if for each of its induced subgraph $H$, $V(H)$ can be partitioned into $A$ and $B$ such that $H[A]$ is perfect and $\omega(H[B]) < \omega(H)$. In this paper, we prove that the perfect divisibility of fork-free graphs is equivalent to that of claw-free graphs. We also prove that, for $F\in \{P_7, P_6\cup K_1\}$, each (fork, $F$)-free graph $G$ is perfectly divisible and hence $\chi(G)\leq \binom{\omega(G)+1}{2}$.

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  1. Every fork-free graph is perfectly weight divisible

    math.CO 2026-08 conditional novelty 8.0 of 10

    Every fork-free graph is perfectly weight divisible, confirming Sivaraman's conjecture and yielding chi(G) at most binomial(omega(G)+1,2) for every fork-free graph.

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