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No graph on exactly three vertices is prime
Statement
Every finite simple graph with has a nontrivial module, and is therefore not prime.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A finite simple graph with , three distinct vertices.
is a module of when the pair is pure for every , and is nontrivial when and (Modules of a graph, and the trivial modules, The cardinality of a finite set).
is prime when every module of is trivial (Prime graphs: those whose only modules are the trivial ones).
The edge set of is a set of two-element subsets of , and the two-element subsets of are exactly , and (A finite simple graph is a finite vertex set together with a set of two-element vertex subsets).
A disjoint pair is complete when every cross pair is an edge, anticomplete when no cross pair is an edge, and pure when it is complete or anticomplete (Edges between disjoint vertex sets; complete, anticomplete, pure and mixed pairs).
Proof
By [F3] the graph has at most three edges, so is , , or , and any two-element has , hence is nontrivial once it is a module.
First case: . Take ; the only vertex outside is , and it is adjacent to neither, so is anticomplete.
Second case: . Take ; the only vertex outside is , and by [F3] both and are edges, so is complete.
Third case: , say the single edge is and is the remaining vertex. Take ; neither nor is an edge, since there is only one edge and it is , so is anticomplete.
Fourth case: . Each of the three possible edges listed in [F3] meets each of the other two, so the two edges of share a vertex ; write them as and with . Take ; the only vertex outside is , which is adjacent to both, so is complete.
The four cases cover every value of allowed by step 1.1, and in each of them the exhibited two-element set has pure for the single vertex outside it, so is a module.
That module is nontrivial by step 1.1, so is not prime.
Depends on
- Prime graphs: those whose only modules are the trivial ones
- Modules of a graph, and the trivial modules
- A finite simple graph is a finite vertex set together with a set of two-element vertex subsets
- The cardinality $\lvert A\rvert$ of a finite set
- Edges between disjoint vertex sets; complete, anticomplete, pure and mixed pairs
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Sources
- M. Habib and C. Paul, A Survey on Algorithmic Aspects of Modular Decomposition, sec. 2.4 (standard reference, not scraped)