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In the study of full bubble model graphs of bounded clique-width and bounded linear clique-width, we determined complete sets of forbidden induced subgraphs, that are minimal in the class of full bubble model graphs. In this note, we show…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-01-29 Daniel Meister , Udi Rotics

The class of 2-interval graphs has been introduced for modelling scheduling and allocation problems, and more recently for specific bioinformatic problems. Some of those applications imply restrictions on the 2-interval graphs, and justify…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-02-04 Philippe Gambette , Stéphane Vialette

We consider the problem of finding small distance-preserving subgraphs of undirected, unweighted interval graphs with $k$ terminal vertices. To start with, we show that finding an optimal distance-preserving subgraph is $\mathsf{NP}$-hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Kshitij Gajjar , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, a subset $X$ of $V$ is an interval of $G$ provided that for any $a, b\in X$ and $ x\in V \setminus X$, $\{a,x\}\in E$ if and only if $\{b,x\}\in E$. For example, $\emptyset$, $\{x\}(x\in V)$ and $V$ are intervals of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-15 Rim Ben Hamadou , Imed Boudabbous

Interval and proper interval graphs are very well-known graph classes, for which there is a wide literature. As a consequence, some generalizations of interval graphs have been proposed, in which graphs in general are expressed in terms of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Flavia Bonomo-Braberman , Fabiano S. Oliveira , Moysés S. Sampaio , Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

The interval number of a graph $G$ is the minimum $k$ such that one can assign to each vertex of $G$ a union of $k$ intervals on the real line, such that $G$ is the intersection graph of these sets, i.e., two vertices are adjacent in $G$ if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Guillaume Guégan , Kolja Knauer , Jonathan Rollin , Torsten Ueckerdt

Lekkerkerker and Boland characterized the minimal forbidden induced subgraphs for the class of interval graphs. We give a linear-time algorithm to find one in any graph that is not an interval graph. Tucker characterized the minimal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-03-11 Nathan Lindzey , Ross McConnell

A cograph is a simple graph which contains no path on 4 vertices as an induced subgraph. We consider the eigenvalues of adjacency matrices of cographs and prove that a graph $G$ is a cograph if and only if no induced subgraph of $G$ has an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Ebrahim Ghorbani

For any natural number $d$, a graph $G$ is a (disjoint) $d$-interval graph if it is the intersection graph of (disjoint) $d$-intervals, the union of $d$ (disjoint) intervals on the real line. Two important subclasses of $d$-interval graphs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Virginia Ardévol Martínez , Romeo Rizzi , Abdallah Saffidine , Florian Sikora , Stéphane Vialette

We study the parameterized complexity of dominating sets in geometric intersection graphs. In one dimension, we investigate intersection graphs induced by translates of a fixed pattern Q that consists of a finite number of intervals and a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Mark de Berg , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Gerhard Woeginger

We introduce and investigate generalizations of interval and proper interval graphs to simplicial complexes, including strong interval, unit interval, and under closed variants. Through equivalent combinatorial and algebraic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Fahimeh Khosh-Ahang Ghasr

In the course of proving the strong perfect graph theorem, Chudnovsky, Robertson, Seymour, and Thomas showed that every perfect graph either belongs to one of five basic classes or admits one of several decompositions. Four of the basic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-05 Boris Alexeev , Alexandra Fradkin , Ilhee Kim

Minimal separators in graphs are an important concept in algorithmic graph theory. In particular, many problems that are NP-hard for general graphs are known to become polynomial-time solvable for classes of graphs with a polynomially…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Martin Milanič , Nevena Pivač

A $k$-improper edge coloring of a graph $G$ is a mapping $\alpha:E(G)\longrightarrow \mathbb{N}$ such that at most $k$ edges of $G$ with a common endpoint have the same color. An improper edge coloring of a graph $G$ is called an improper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-16 Carl Johan Casselgren , Petros A. Petrosyan

A graph is circle if its vertices are in correspondence with a family of chords in a circle in such a way that every two distinct vertices are adjacent if and only if the corresponding chords have nonempty intersection. Even though there…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Flavia Bonomo-Braberman , Guillermo A. Durán , Nina Pardal , Martín D. Safe

Chordal graphs are the graphs in which every cycle of length at least four has a chord. A set $S$ is a vertex separator for vertices $a$ and $b$ if the removal of $S$ of the graph separates $a$ and $b$ into distinct connected components. A…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Sérgio H. Nogueira , Vinicius F. dos Santos

The proper thinness of a graph is an invariant that generalizes the concept of a proper interval graph. Every graph has a numerical value of proper thinness and the graphs with proper thinness~1 are exactly the proper interval graphs. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Flavia Bonomo-Braberman , Ignacio Maqueda , Nina Pardal

A graph $G$ has $p$-intersection number at most $d$ if it is possible to assign to every vertex $u$ of $G$, a subset $S(u)$ of some ground set $U$ with $|U|=d$ in such a way that distinct vertices $u$ and $v$ of $G$ are adjacent in $G$ if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Claudson F. Bornstein , Jose W. C. Pinto , Dieter Rautenbach , Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

The interval graph for a set of intervals on a line consists of one vertex for each interval, and an edge for each intersecting pair of intervals. A probe interval graph is a variant that is motivated by an application to genomics, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Ross M. McConnell , Yahav Nussbaum

A short proof is given that the graphs with proper interval representations are the same as the graphs with unit interval representations.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kenneth P. Bogart , Douglas B. West