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A finite simple graph is perfect exactly when it has neither an induced odd cycle of length at least five nor the complement of such a cycle. A structural decomposition of Berge graphs, together with exclusions for a minimal imperfect graph, yields the characterization.
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Perfection concerns every induced subgraph, not only the original graph's chromatic and clique numbers. This contribution is the structural theorem, not automatically a new optimal recognition or coloring algorithm.
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Maria Chudnovsky; Neil Robertson; Paul Seymour; Robin Thomas
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Chudnovsky, Robertson, Seymour and Thomas: the strong perfect graph theorem
A finite simple graph is perfect exactly when it has neither an induced odd cycle of length at least five nor the complement of such a cycle. A structural decomposition of Berge graphs, together with exclusions for a minimal imperfect graph, yields the characterization.
Scientific scope
Perfection concerns every induced subgraph, not only the original graph's chromatic and clique numbers. This contribution is the structural theorem, not automatically a new optimal recognition or coloring algorithm.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Maria Chudnovsky; Neil Robertson; Paul Seymour; Robin Thomas
Source-listed authors for the exact contribution; experimental subjects are not autonomous scientific authors. Source support and predecessor work retain separate roles. Individual effort shares and unresolved identities are not inferred.