David R. Wood - On the number of maximal independent sets in a graph

dmtcs:543 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, September 10, 2011, Vol. 13 no. 3 - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.543
On the number of maximal independent sets in a graphArticle

Authors: David R. Wood ORCID1

  • 1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics [Melbourne]

Miller and Muller (1960) and independently Moon and Moser (1965) determined the maximum number of maximal independent sets in an n-vertex graph. We give a new and simple proof of this result.


Volume: Vol. 13 no. 3
Section: Combinatorics
Published on: September 10, 2011
Accepted on: June 9, 2015
Submitted on: August 17, 2011
Keywords: [INFO.INFO-DM] Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM]

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