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Chordality and hyperbolicity of a graph

Combinatorics 2010-06-03 v3

Abstract

Let GG be a connected graph with the usual shortest-path metric dd. The graph GG is δ\delta-hyperbolic provided for any vertices x,y,u,vx,y,u,v in it, the two larger of the three sums d(u,v)+d(x,y),d(u,x)+d(v,y)d(u,v)+d(x,y),d(u,x)+d(v,y) and d(u,y)+d(v,x)d(u,y)+d(v,x) differ by at most 2δ.2\delta. The graph GG is kk-chordal provided it has no induced cycle of length greater than k.k. 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 k4,k\geq 4, we show that a kk-chordal graph must be k22\frac{\lfloor \frac{k}{2}\rfloor}{2}-hyperbolic and there does exist a kk-chordal graph which is not k222\frac{\lfloor \frac{k-2}{2}\rfloor}{2}-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

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