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The subject of this work is the study of the Lovász-Schrijver PSD-operator \(LS_+\) applied to the edge relaxation \(\mathrm{ESTAB}(G)\) of the stable set polytope \(\mathrm{STAB}(G)\) of a graph G. We are interested in the problem of characterizing the graphs G for which \(\mathrm{STAB}(G)\) is achieved in one iteration of the \(LS_+\)-operator, called \(LS_+\)-perfect graphs, and to find a polyhedral relaxation of \(\mathrm{STAB}(G)\) that coincides with \(LS_+(\mathrm{ESTAB}(G))\) and \(\mathrm{STAB}(G)\) if and only if G is \(LS_+\)-perfect. An according conjecture has been recently formulated (\(LS_+\)-Perfect Graph Conjecture); here we verify it for the well-studied class of claw-free graphs.
This work was supported by an ECOS-MINCyT cooperation (A12E01), a MATH-AmSud cooperation (PACK-COVER), PID-CONICET 0277, PICT-ANPCyT 0586.
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Bianchi, S., Escalante, M., Nasini, G., Wagler, A. (2016). Lovász-Schrijver PSD-Operator on Claw-Free Graphs. In: Cerulli, R., Fujishige, S., Mahjoub, A. (eds) Combinatorial Optimization. ISCO 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9849. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45587-7_6
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