A hereditary property R of graphs is said to be reducible if there exist hereditary properties P₁,P₂ such that G ∈ R if and only if the set of vertices of G can be partitioned into V(G) = V₁∪V₂ so that ⟨V₁⟩ ∈ P₁ and ⟨V₂⟩ ∈ P₂. The problem of the factorization of reducible properties into irreducible factors is investigated.
For a connected graph G = (V,E), a set W ⊆ V is called a Steiner set of G if every vertex of G is contained in a Steiner W-tree of G. The Steiner number s(G) of G is the minimum cardinality of its Steiner sets and any Steiner set of cardinality s(G) is a minimum Steiner set of G. For a minimum Steiner set W of G, a subset T ⊆ W is called a forcing subset for W if W is the unique minimum Steiner set containing T. A forcing subset for W of minimum cardinality is a minimum forcing subset of W. The...
Let be an expanding matrix, a set with elements and define via the set equation . If the two-dimensional Lebesgue measure of is positive we call a self-affine plane tile. In the present paper we are concerned with topological properties of . We show that the fundamental group of is either trivial or uncountable and provide criteria for the triviality as well as the uncountability of . Furthermore, we give a short proof of the fact that the closure of each component of is a locally...