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The LexCycle on $\overline{P_{2}\cup P_{3}}$-free Cocomparability Graphs

Combinatorics 2023-06-22 v5

Abstract

A graph GG is a cocomparability graph if there exists an acyclic transitive orientation of the edges of its complement graph G\overline{G}. LBFS+^{+} is a variant of the generic Lexicographic Breadth First Search (LBFS), which uses a specific tie-breaking mechanism. Starting with some ordering σ0\sigma_{0} of GG, let {σi}i1\{\sigma_{i}\}_{i\geq 1} be the sequence of orderings such that σi=\sigma_{i}=LBFS+(G,σi1)^{+}(G, \sigma_{i-1}). The LexCycle(GG) is defined as the maximum length of a cycle of vertex orderings of GG obtained via such a sequence of LBFS+^{+} sweeps. Dusart and Habib conjectured in 2017 that LexCycle(GG)=2 if GG is a cocomparability graph and proved it holds for interval graphs. In this paper, we show that LexCycle(GG)=2 if GG is a P2P3\overline{P_{2}\cup P_{3}}-free cocomparability graph, where a P2P3\overline{P_{2}\cup P_{3}} is the graph whose complement is the disjoint union of P2P_{2} and P3P_{3}. 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

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