The LexCycle on $\overline{P_{2}\cup P_{3}}$-free Cocomparability Graphs
Abstract
A graph is a cocomparability graph if there exists an acyclic transitive orientation of the edges of its complement graph . LBFS is a variant of the generic Lexicographic Breadth First Search (LBFS), which uses a specific tie-breaking mechanism. Starting with some ordering of , let be the sequence of orderings such that LBFS. The LexCycle() is defined as the maximum length of a cycle of vertex orderings of obtained via such a sequence of LBFS sweeps. Dusart and Habib conjectured in 2017 that LexCycle()=2 if is a cocomparability graph and proved it holds for interval graphs. In this paper, we show that LexCycle()=2 if is a -free cocomparability graph, where a is the graph whose complement is the disjoint union of and . As corollaries, it's applicable for diamond-free cocomparability graphs, cocomparability graphs with girth at least 4, as well as interval graphs.
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@article{arxiv.1904.08076,
title = {The LexCycle on $\overline{P_{2}\cup P_{3}}$-free Cocomparability Graphs},
author = {Xiao-Lu Gao and Shou-Jun Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08076},
year = {2023}
}
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11 pages, 9 figures