Stable set bonding in perfect graphs and parity graphs
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
A special planar satisfiability problem and a consequence of its NP-completeness
Discrete Applied Mathematics
An Optimal Algorithm to Detect a Line Graph and Output Its Root Graph
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Discrete Mathematics
The Complexity of the Matching-Cut Problem
WG '01 Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
On stable cutsets in line graphs
Theoretical Computer Science
New applications of clique separator decomposition for the Maximum Weight Stable Set problem
Theoretical Computer Science
Fragile graphs with small independent cuts
Journal of Graph Theory
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A stable cutset in a connected graph is a stable set whose deletion disconnects the graph. Let K"4 and K"1","3 (claw) denote the complete (bipartite) graph on 4 and 1+3 vertices. It is NP-complete to decide whether a line graph (hence a claw-free graph) with maximum degree five or a K"4-free graph admits a stable cutset. Here we describe algorithms deciding in polynomial time whether a claw-free graph with maximum degree at most four or whether a (claw, K"4)-free graph admits a stable cutset. As a by-product we obtain that the stable cutset problem is polynomially solvable for claw-free planar graphs, and also for planar line graphs. Thus, the computational complexity of the stable cutset problem is completely determined for claw-free graphs with respect to degree constraint, and for claw-free planar graphs. Moreover, we prove that the stable cutset problem remains NP-complete for K"4-free planar graphs with maximum degree five.