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All graphs with at most seven vertices are Pairwise Compatibility Graphs

Discrete Mathematics 2012-02-22 v1

Abstract

A graph GG is called a pairwise compatibility graph (PCG) if there exists an edge-weighted tree TT and two non-negative real numbers dmind_{min} and dmaxd_{max} such that each leaf lul_u of TT corresponds to a vertex uVu \in V and there is an edge (u,v)E(u,v) \in E if and only if dmindT,w(lu,lv)dmaxd_{min} \leq d_{T,w} (l_u, l_v) \leq d_{max} where dT,w(lu,lv)d_{T,w} (l_u, l_v) is the sum of the weights of the edges on the unique path from lul_u to lvl_v in TT. In this note, we show that all the graphs with at most seven vertices are PCGs. In particular all these graphs except for the wheel on 7 vertices W7W_7 are PCGs of a particular structure of a tree: a centipede.

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@article{arxiv.1202.4631,
  title  = {All graphs with at most seven vertices are Pairwise Compatibility Graphs},
  author = {Tiziana Calamoneri and Dario Frascaria and Blerina Sinaimeri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.4631},
  year   = {2012}
}

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8 pages, 2 figures

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