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Lower Bounds on the mim-width of Some Graph Classes

Discrete Mathematics 2017-01-05 v2

Abstract

mim-width is a recent graph width measure that has seen applications in graph algorithms and problems related to propositional satisfiability. In this paper, we show linear lower bounds for the mim-width of strongly chordal split graphs, co-comparability graphs and circle graphs. This improves and refines lower bounds that were known before, some of them only conditionally. In the case of strongly chordal graphs not even a conditional lower bound was known before. All of the bounds given are optimal up to constants.

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@article{arxiv.1608.01542,
  title  = {Lower Bounds on the mim-width of Some Graph Classes},
  author = {Stefan Mengel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.01542},
  year   = {2017}
}
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