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A graph $G = (V, E)$ is said to be word-representable if a word $w$ can be formed using the letters of the alphabet $V$ such that for every pair of vertices $x$ and $y$, $xy \in E$ if and only if $x$ and $y$ alternate in $w$. Gaetz and Ji…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Eshwar Srinivasan , Ramesh Hariharasubramanian

A graph is called $k$-representable if there exists a word $w$ over the nodes of the graph, each node occurring exactly $k$ times, such that there is an edge between two nodes $x,y$ if and only after removing all letters distinct from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Bas Broere , Hans Zantema

The notion of word-representable graphs is a generalization of comparability graphs, in which graphs are represented by words. The complexity of word-representation of a word-representable graph is captured through the representation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Khyodeno Mozhui , K. V. Krishna

A graph $G = (V,E)$ is word-representable if there is a word $w$ over the alphabet $V$ such that $x$ and $y$ alternate in $w$ if and only if the edge $(x, y)$ is in $G$. It is known [6] that all $3$-colourable graphs are word-representable,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Marc Elliot Glen

Distinct letters $x$ and $y$ alternate in a word $w$ if after deleting in $w$ all letters but the copies of $x$ and $y$ we either obtain a word of the form $xyxy\cdots$ (of even or odd length) or a word of the form $yxyx\cdots$ (of even or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Gi-Sang Cheon , Jinha Kim , Minki Kim , Sergey Kitaev

The class of word-representable graphs, introduced in connection with the study of the Perkins semigroup by Kitaev and Seif, has attracted significant attention in combinatorics and theoretical computer science due to its deep connections…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Eshwar Srinivasan , Ramesh Hariharasubramanian

We consider the class of semi-transitively orientable graphs, which is a much larger class of graphs compared to transitively orientable graphs, in other words, comparability graphs. Ever since the concept of a semi-transitive orientation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Ilkyoo Choi , Jinha Kim , Minki Kim

In this work, we show that the class of word-representable graphs is closed under split recomposition and determine the representation number of the graph obtained by recomposing two word-representable graphs. Accordingly, we show that the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Tithi Dwary , K. V. Krishna

In this work, we characterize the class of word-representable graphs with respect to the modular decomposition. Consequently, we determine the representation number of a word-representable graph in terms of the permutation-representation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Tithi Dwary , K. V. Krishna

An orientation of a graph is semi-transitive if it is acyclic, and for any directed path $v_0\rightarrow v_1\rightarrow \cdots\rightarrow v_k$ either there is no edge between $v_0$ and $v_k$, or $v_i\rightarrow v_j$ is an edge for all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Sergey Kitaev , Akira Saito

The representation number of a graph is the minimum number of copies of each vertex required to represent the graph as a word, such that the letters corresponding to vertices $x$ and $y$ alternate if and only if $xy$ is an edge in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Nawaf Shafi Alshammari , Sergey Kitaev , Artem Pyatkin

In this paper we study graphs defined by pattern-avoiding words. Word-representable graphs have been studied extensively following their introduction in 2000 and are the subject of a book published by Kitaev in 2015. Recently there has been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Yelena Mandelshtam

The notion of a $k$-11-representable graph was introduced by Jeff Remmel in 2017 and studied by Cheon et al.\ in 2019 as a natural extension of the extensively studied notion of word-representable graphs, which are precisely…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Mikhail Futorny , Sergey Kitaev , Artem Pyatkin

In this work, we investigate the relationship between $k$-repre\-sentable graphs and graphs representable by $k$-local words. In particular, we show that every graph representable by a $k$-local word is $(k+1)$-representable. A previous…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Philipp Böll , Pamela Fleischmann , Annika Huch , Jana Kreiß , Tim Löck , Kajus Park , Max Wiedenhöft

This paper investigates the new notion of $2$-word-$\pi$-repre\-sentable graphs: the nodes of the graph correspond to the letters of the two words and there exists an edge between two nodes if the projections of any two letters of both…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Duncan Adamson , Amanita Dietz , Pamela Fleischmann , Annika Huch , Silas Cato Sacher

In this paper, we study the word-representability of well-partitioned chordal graphs using split decomposition. We show that every component of the minimal split decomposition of a well-partitioned chordal graph is a split graph. Thus we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Tithi Dwary , K. V. Krishna

Jeff Remmel introduced the concept of a $k$-11-representable graph in 2017. This concept was first explored by Cheon et al. in 2019, who considered it as a natural extension of word-representable graphs, which are exactly 0-11-representable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Mohammed Alshammari , Sergey Kitaev , Chaoliang Tang , Tianyi Tao , Junchi Zhang

A 1-11-representation of a graph $G(V,E)$ is a word over the alphabet $V$ such that two distinct vertices $x$ and $y$ are adjacent if and only if the restricted word $w{x,y}$ (obtained from $w$ by deleting all letters except $x$ and $y$)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Biswajit Das , Ramesh Hariharasubramanian

The representation complexity of a bipartite graph $G=(P,Q)$ is the minimum size $\sum_{i=1}^s (|A_i|+|B_i|)$ over all possible ways to write $G$ as a (not necessarily disjoint) union of complete bipartite subgraphs $G=\cup_{i=1}^s…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-06 Thao Do

A directed graph is semi-transitive if and only if it is acyclic and for any directed path $u_1\rightarrow u_2\rightarrow \cdots \rightarrow u_t$, $t \geq 2$, either there is no edge from $u_1$ to $u_t$ or all edges $u_i\rightarrow u_j$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Sergey Kitaev , Artem Pyatkin