Covering Minimal Separators and Potential Maximal Cliques in $P_t$-Free Graphs

A graph is called $P_t$-free if it does not contain a $t$-vertex path as an induced subgraph. While $P_4$-free graphs are exactly cographs, the structure of $P_t$-free graphs for $t \geqslant 5$ remains little understood. On one hand, classic computational problems such as Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) and $3$-Coloring are not known to be NP-hard on $P_t$-free graphs for any fixed $t$. On the other hand, despite significant effort, polynomial-time algorithms for MWIS in $P_6$-free graphs~[SODA 2019] and $3$-Coloring in $P_7$-free graphs~[Combinatorica 2018] have been found only recently. In both cases, the algorithms rely on deep structural insights into the considered graph classes. One of the main tools in the algorithms for MWIS in $P_5$-free graphs~[SODA 2014] and in $P_6$-free graphs~[SODA 2019] is the so-called Separator Covering Lemma that asserts that every minimal separator in the graph can be covered by the union of neighborhoods of a constant number of vertices. In this note we show that such a statement generalizes to $P_7$-free graphs and is false in $P_8$-free graphs. We also discuss analogues of such a statement for covering potential maximal cliques with unions of neighborhoods.

Hölder Regularity of Quasiminimizers to Generalized Orlicz Functional on the Heisenberg Group

In this paper, we apply De Giorgi-Moser iteration to establish the Hölder regularity of quasiminimizers to generalized Orlicz functional on the Heisenberg group by using the Riesz potential, maximal function, Calderón-Zygmund decomposition, and covering Lemma on the context of the Heisenberg Group. The functional includes the p -Laplace functional on the Heisenberg group which has been studied and the variable exponential functional and the double phase growth functional on the Heisenberg group that have not been studied.