Claw-freeness, $3$-homogeneous subsets of a graph and a reconstruction problem

12 pagesInternational audienceWe describe ${\rm Forb}\{K_{1,3}, \overline {K_{1,3}}\}$, the class of graphs $G$ such that $G$ and its complement $ \overline{G}$ are claw-free. With few exceptions, it is made of graphs whose connected components consist of cycles of length at least 4, paths, and of the complements of these graphs. Considering the hypergraph ${\mathcal H} ^{(3)}(G)$ made of the $3$-element subsets of the vertex set of a graph $G$ on which $G$ induces a clique or an independent subset, we deduce from above a description of the Boolean sum $G\dot{+}G'$ of two graphs $G$ and $G'$ giving the same hypergraph. We indicate the role of this latter description in a reconstruction problem of graphs up to complementation