Chordality and hyperbolicity of a graph
Abstract
Let be a connected graph with the usual shortest-path metric . The graph is -hyperbolic provided for any vertices in it, the two larger of the three sums and differ by at most The graph is -chordal provided it has no induced cycle of length greater than Brinkmann, Koolen and Moulton find that every 3-chordal graph is 1-hyperbolic and is not 1/2-hyperbolic if and only if it contains one of two special graphs as an isometric subgraph. For every we show that a -chordal graph must be -hyperbolic and there does exist a -chordal graph which is not -hyperbolic. Moreover, we prove that a 5-chordal graph is 1/2-hyperbolic if and only if it does not contain any of a list of six special graphs (See Fig. 3) as an isometric subgraph.
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@article{arxiv.0910.3544,
title = {Chordality and hyperbolicity of a graph},
author = {Yaokun Wu and Chengpeng Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3544},
year = {2010}
}
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44 pages, second version