DMTCS Proceedings, 2005 European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications (EuroComb '05)

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DMTCS Conference vol AE (2005), pp. 245-250

DMTCS

2005 European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications (EuroComb '05)

Stefan Felsner (ed.)

DMTCS Conference Volume AE (2005), pp. 245-250


author: Jaroslav Nešetřil and Yared Nigussie
title: Density of universal classes of series-parallel graphs
keywords: circular chromatic number, homomorphism, series-parallel graphs, universality
abstract: A class of graphs
C
ordered by the homomorphism relation is universal if every countable partial order can be embedded in
C
. It was shown in [ZH] that the class
C
k
of
k
-colorable graphs, for any fixed
k≥3
, induces a universal partial order. In [HN1], a surprisingly small subclass of
C
3
which is a proper subclass of
K
4
-minor-free graphs (
G
/K
4
) is shown to be universal. In another direction, a density result was given in [PZ], that for each rational number
a/b ∈[2,8/3]∪{3}
, there is a
K
4
-minor-free graph with circular chromatic number equal to
a/b
. In this note we show for each rational number
a/b
within this interval the class
K
a/b
of
K
4
-minor-free graphs with circular chromatic number
a/b
is universal if and only if
a/b ≠2
,
5/2
or
3
. This shows yet another surprising richness of the
K
4
-minor-free class that it contains universal classes as dense as the rational numbers.
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reference: Jaroslav Nešetřil and Yared Nigussie (2005), Density of universal classes of series-parallel graphs, in 2005 European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications (EuroComb '05), Stefan Felsner (ed.), Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science Proceedings AE, pp. 245-250
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