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An oclique is an oriented graph where every pair of distinct non-adjacent vertices are connected by a directed path of length 2. Klostermeyer and MacGillivray conjectured that the maximum order of a planar oclique is 15. In this article we settle that conjecture.
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Sen, S. (2012). Maximum Order of a Planar Oclique Is 15. In: Arumugam, S., Smyth, W.F. (eds) Combinatorial Algorithms. IWOCA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7643. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35926-2_16
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