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Given a finite word $w$ over a finite alphabet $V$, consider the graph with vertex set $V$ and with an edge between two elements of $V$ if and only if the two elements alternate in the word $w$. Such a graph is said to be word-representable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Marisa Gaetz , Caleb Ji

A graph $G = (V,E)$ is word-representable if there exists a word $w$ over the alphabet $V$ such that letters $x$ and $y$ alternate in $w$ if and only if $xy$ is an edge in $E$. Word-representable graphs are the subject of a long research…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Alice L. L. Gao , Sergey Kitaev , Philip B. Zhang

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

A graph $G = (V, E)$ is word-representable, if there exists a word w over the alphabet V such that for letters ${x, y} \in V$ , $x$ and $y$ alternate in $w$ if and only if $xy \in E$. In this paper, we prove that any non-empty…

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

A graph $G=(V,E)$ is word-representable if there exists a word $w$ over the alphabet $V$ such that letters $x$ and $y$ alternate in $w$ if and only if $(x,y)\in E$. A triangular grid graph is a subgraph of a tiling of the plane with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-30 Zongqing Chen , Sergey Kitaev , Brian Y. Sun

A graph $G=(V,E)$ is word-representable if there exists a word $w$ over the alphabet $V$ such that letters $x$ and $y$ alternate in $w$ if and only if $xy\in E$. Word-representable graphs generalize several important classes of graphs such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Anthony V. Petyuk

A graph $G=(V,E)$ is word-representable if there exists a word $w$ over the alphabet $V$ such that letters $x$ and $y$ alternate in $w$ if and only if $(x,y)$ is an edge in $E$. A graph is word-representable if and only if it is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Sergey Kitaev

Word-representable graphs, characterized by the existence of a semi-transitive orientation, form a well-studied class of graphs. Comparability graphs form another well-studied class and constitute a subclass of word-representable graphs.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Benny George Kenkireth , Gopalan Sajith , Sreyas Sasidharan

A graph $G=(V,E)$ is word-representable if there exists a word $w$ over the alphabet $V$ such that letters $x$ and $y$ alternate in $w$ if and only if $xy$ is an edge in $E$. It is known that any word-representable graph $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-05 Marc Glen , Sergey Kitaev , Artem Pyatkin

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

A graph is said to be word-representable if there exists a word over its vertex set such that any two vertices are adjacent if and only if they alternate in the word. If no such word exists, the graph is non-word-representable. In the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Khyodeno Mozhui , Tithi Dwary , K. V. Krishna

The literature on word-representable graphs is quite rich, and a number of variations of the original definition have been proposed over the years. We are initiating a systematic study of such variations based on formal languages. In our…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Zhidan Feng , Henning Fernau , Pamela Fleischmann , Kevin Mann , Silas Cato Sacher

A graph G(V, E) is word-representable if there exists a word w over V such that distinct letters x and y alternate in w iff $xy \in E$. We introduce p-complete squares and p-complete square-free word-representable graphs. A word is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Biswajit Das , Ramesh Hariharasubramanian

A graph $G=(V,E)$ is said to be word-representable if there exists a word $w$ over the alphabet $V$ such that two distinct letters $x,y\in V$ alternate in $w$ if and only if $xy \in E$. Word-representable graphs form a well-studied graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Suchanda Roy , Ramesh Hariharasubramanian

A graph G=(V,E) is representable if there exists a word W over the alphabet V such that letters x and y alternate in W if and only if (x,y) is in E for each x not equal to y. The motivation to study representable graphs came from algebra,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Sergey Kitaev , Pavel Salimov , Christopher Severs , Henning Ulfarsson

A graph is word-representable if it can be represented in a certain way using alternation of letters in words. Word-representable graphs generalise several important and well-studied classes of graphs, and they can be characterised by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Sergey Kitaev , Haoran Sun

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

For an arbitrary word $w$ on an alphabet, we can define the alternating symbol graph, $G(w)$, as the graph in which the edge $(a, b)$ is in $E$ iff the letters $a$ and $b$ alternate in the word $w$. A graph $G = (V, E)$ is said to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-14 Ameya Daigavane , Mrityunjay Singh , Benny K. George

Word-representable graphs are a subset of graphs that may be represented by a word $w$ over an alphabet composed of the vertices in the graph. In such graphs, an edge exists if and only if the occurrences of the corresponding vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Duncan Adamson

An open question in the theory of word-representable graphs for the past decade has been whether the line graph of a non-word-representable graph is always non-word-representable. By formulating an appropriate optimization problem for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-06 M M Akbar , P D Akrobotu , C P Brewer