Cograph

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In graph theory, a cograph, or complement-reducible graph, or P4-free graph, is a graph that can be generated from the single-vertex graph K1 by complementation and disjoint union. That is, the family of cographs is the smallest class of graphs that includes K1 and is closed under complementation and disjoint union. Cographs have been discovered independently by several authors since the 1970s; early references include Jung (1978), Lerchs (1971), Seinsche (1974), and Sumner (1974). They have also been called D*-graphs, hereditary Dacey graphs (after the related work of James C. Dacey Jr. on orthomodular lattices), and 2-parity graphs. They have a simple structural decomposition involving disjoint union and complement graph operations that can be represented concisely by a labeled tree and used algorithmically to efficiently solve many problems such as finding a maximum clique that are hard on more general graph classes. Special types of cograph include complete graphs, complete bipartite...

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