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The majority of a cactus is prickly

Catarina Carvalho, Mathison Knight, Barnaby Martin

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Source: arXiv

Published: Oct 12, 2026

arXiv: 2610.17107

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We characterise all (undirected) cacti graphs, and forests of cacti, with an edge-preserving near-unanimity operation, by means of forbidden induced subgraphs. Indeed all such graphs also have an edge-preserving majority operation. We show that said majority can be chosen to be symmetric and explicitly construct it for all forests of cacti without the forbidden induced subgraphs.

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