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Induced Subgraph Saturated Graphs, Craig M. Tennenhouse

Theory and Applications of Graphs

A graph G is said to be H-saturated if G contains no subgraph isomorphic to H but the addition of any edge between non-adjacent vertices in G creates one. While induced subgraphs are often studied in the extremal case with regard to the removal of edges, we extend saturation to induced subgraphs. We say that G is induced H-saturated if G contains no induced subgraph isomorphic to H and the addition of any edge to G results in an induced copy of H. We demonstrate constructively that there are non-trivial examples of saturated graphs for …