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An upper bound for Cubicity in terms of Boxicity

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

An axis-parallel b-dimensional box is a Cartesian product R1×R2×...×RbR_1 \times R_2 \times ... \times R_b where each RiR_i (for 1ib1 \leq i \leq b) is a closed interval of the form [ai,bi][a_i,b_i] on the real line. The boxicity of any graph GG, box(G) is the minimum positive integer b such that G can be represented as the intersection graph of axis parallel b-dimensional boxes. A b-dimensional cube is a Cartesian product R1×R2×...×RbR_1 \times R_2\times ... \times R_b, where each RiR_i (for 1ib1 \leq i \leq b) is a closed interval of the form [aia_i,aia_i+1] on the real line. When the boxes are restricted to be axis-parallel cubes in b-dimension, the minimum dimension b required to represent the graph is called the cubicity of the graph (denoted by cub(G)). In this paper we prove that cub(G)logn\boxi(G)cub(G)\leq \lceil \log n \rceil \boxi(G)} where n is the number of vertices in the graph. This upper bound is tight.

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@article{arxiv.math/0605486,
  title  = {An upper bound for Cubicity in terms of Boxicity},
  author = {L. Sunil Chandran and K. Ashik Mathew},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0605486},
  year   = {2007}
}

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