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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2004 iii Paper 39 3 e Solution by
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A valid triangulation of an undirected graph adds exactly the two fill edgesTo verify it, eliminate the vertices in the order . The first eight eliminations have neighboring vertices already joined. When is eliminated, its remaining neighbors are , so add . When is eliminated, its remaining neighbors are , so add . The remaining form a clique.
Thus this order is a perfect elimination ordering of the completed graph, which is a chordal graph. The fill edges are computational devices for genotype elimination; they do not add parent-child relationships to the pedigree.
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