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A class of graphs with large rankwidth

Discrete Mathematics 2023-10-23 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

We describe several graphs with arbitrarily large rankwidth (or equivalently with arbitrarily large cliquewidth). Korpelainen, Lozin, and Mayhill [Split permutation graphs, Graphs and Combinatorics, 30(3):633-646, 2014] proved that there exist split graphs with Dilworth number 2 with arbitrarily large rankwidth, but without explicitly constructing them. We provide an explicit construction. Maffray, Penev, and Vu\v{s}kovi\'c [Coloring rings, Journal of Graph Theory 96(4):642-683, 2021] proved that graphs that they call rings on nn sets can be colored in polynomial time. We show that for every fixed integer n3n\geq 3, there exist rings on nn sets with arbitrarily large rankwidth. When n5n\geq 5 and nn is odd, this provides a new construction of even-hole-free graphs with arbitrarily large rankwidth.

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@article{arxiv.2007.11513,
  title  = {A class of graphs with large rankwidth},
  author = {Chính Hoàng and Nicolas Trotignon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.11513},
  year   = {2023}
}
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