Upward-closed hereditary families in the dominance order

Authors

Michael D. Barrus, University of Rhode IslandFollow
Jean A. Guillaume, Sacred Heart University

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

4-22-2021

Abstract

The majorization relation orders the degree sequences of simple graphs into posets called dominance orders. As shown by Ruch and Gutman (1979) and Merris (2002), the degree sequences of threshold and split graphs form upward-closed sets within the dominance orders they belong to, i.e., any degree sequence majorizing a split or threshold sequence must itself be split or threshold, respectively. Motivated by the fact that threshold graphs and split graphs have characterizations in terms of forbidden induced subgraphs, we define a class F of graphs to be dominance monotone if whenever no realization of e contains an element F as an induced subgraph, and d majorizes e, then no realization of d induces an element of F. We present conditions necessary for a set of graphs to be dominance monotone, and we identify the dominance monotone sets of order at most 3.

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science

Volume

23

Issue

3

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Barrus, Michael D.and Jean Guillaume. Upward-closed hereditary families in the dominance order. Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 23 (20 January 2022), no. 3. https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.5666