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On the reconstruction conjecture for separable graphs

Part of: Graph theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

V. Krishnamoorthy  and
K. R. Parthasarathy
V. Krishnamoorthy
Affiliation:
Faculty of Science, Madras Institute of Technology, Campus, Perarignar Anna University of Technology, Madras-44, India
K. R. Parthasarathy
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras-36, India
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Abstract

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Some sufficient conditions for the reconstructability of separable graphs are given proceeding along the lines suggested by Bondy, Greenwell and Hemminger. It is shown that the structure and automorphism group of a central block plays an important role in the reconstruction.

MSC classification

Secondary: 05C60: Isomorphism problems (reconstruction conjecture, etc.) and homomorphisms (subgraph embedding, etc.)
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , February 1981 , pp. 307 - 320
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1981

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