On (P5, diamond)-free graphs Original Research Article

We study the stability number, chromatic number and clique cover of graphs with no induced P5 and diamonds. In particular, we provide a way to obtain all imperfect (P5, diamond)-free graphs by iterated point multiplication or substitution from a finite collection of small basic graphs. Corollaries of this and other structural properties, among which a result of Bacsó and Tuza, are (i) combinatorial algorithms to solve coloring, clique cover and stable set in the class of (P5, diamond)-free graphs, (ii) a complete description of the stable set polytope of (P5, diamond)-free graphs, and (iii) the existence of non-trivial h-perfect graphs which are not t-perfect.