Characterizing all $K_4$-free well-edge-dominated graphs of girth 3

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Main Authors: Anderson, Sarah E., Kuenzel, Kirsti
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author Anderson, Sarah E.
Kuenzel, Kirsti
author_facet Anderson, Sarah E.
Kuenzel, Kirsti
contents Given a graph $G$, a set $F$ of edges is an edge dominating set if all edges in $G$ are either in $F$ or adjacent to an edge in $F$. $G$ is said to be well-edge-dominated if every minimal edge dominating set is also minimum. In 2022, it was proven that there are precisely three nonbipartite, well-edge-dominated graphs with girth at least four. Then in 2025, a characterization of all well-edge-dominated graphs containing exactly one triangle was found. In this paper, we characterize all well-edge-dominated graphs that contain a triangle and yet are $K_4$-free.
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spellingShingle Characterizing all $K_4$-free well-edge-dominated graphs of girth 3
Anderson, Sarah E.
Kuenzel, Kirsti
Combinatorics
05C69, 05C76, 05C75
Given a graph $G$, a set $F$ of edges is an edge dominating set if all edges in $G$ are either in $F$ or adjacent to an edge in $F$. $G$ is said to be well-edge-dominated if every minimal edge dominating set is also minimum. In 2022, it was proven that there are precisely three nonbipartite, well-edge-dominated graphs with girth at least four. Then in 2025, a characterization of all well-edge-dominated graphs containing exactly one triangle was found. In this paper, we characterize all well-edge-dominated graphs that contain a triangle and yet are $K_4$-free.
title Characterizing all $K_4$-free well-edge-dominated graphs of girth 3
topic Combinatorics
05C69, 05C76, 05C75
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06095