List-monopolar partitions of claw-free graphs
Shortly after solving the monopolar partition problem for line graphs, Jing and I realized that our solution could be used to solve the "precoloured" version of the problem, and then further extended to claw-free graphs.
List monopolar partitions of claw-free graphs. Discrete Mathematics 312(17). Ross Churchley and Jing Huang (2012). The list monopolar partition problem asks whether a graph together with lists , admits a mapping such that for each source induces an independent set and induces a disjoint union of cliques in . This problem is NP-complete in general. We show that the problem is solvable in time for claw-free graphs where and are the numbers of vertices and edges respectively in the input graph.