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Counting Independent Sets in Claw-Free Graphs

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In this paper we give an algorithm for counting the number of all independent sets in a claw-free graph which works in time O *(1.08352n) for graphs with no vertices of degree larger than 3 and O *(1.23544n) for arbitrary claw-free graphs, where n is the number of vertices in the instance graph.

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Junosza-Szaniawski, K., Lonc, Z., Tuczyński, M. (2011). Counting Independent Sets in Claw-Free Graphs. In: Kolman, P., Kratochvíl, J. (eds) Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science. WG 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6986. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25870-1_21

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