P-Components and the Homogeneous Decomposition of Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Beverly Jamison;Stephan Olariu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce and investigate the notion of p-connectedness. As it turns out, this concept leads naturally to a unique tree representation for arbitrary graphs: the leaves of this tree are the p-connected components along with weak vertices, that is, vertices of the graph that belong to no p-connected component. We then show how to refine this decomposition to obtain a new decomposition that extends the well-known modular decomposition.