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Perfect Graphs of Fixed Density: Counting and Homogeneous Sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2012

JULIA BÖTTCHER
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK (e-mail: [email protected])
ANUSCH TARAZ
Affiliation:
Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstraße 3, D-85747 Garching bei München, Germany (e-mail: [email protected], [email protected])
ANDREAS WÜRFL
Affiliation:
Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstraße 3, D-85747 Garching bei München, Germany (e-mail: [email protected], [email protected])

Abstract

For c ∈ (0,1) let n(c) denote the set of n-vertex perfect graphs with density c and let n(c) denote the set of n-vertex graphs without induced C5 and with density c.

We show that with otherwise, where H is the binary entropy function.

Further, we use this result to deduce that almost all graphs in n(c) have homogeneous sets of linear size. This answers a question raised by Loebl and co-workers.

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