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In this paper we deal with a subclass of chordal graphs, which are simultaneously strictly chordal and interval, the strictly interval graphs. We present a new characterization of the class that leads to a simple linear recognition…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Claudia Justel , Lilian Markenzon

A chorded cycle in a graph $G$ is a cycle on which two nonadjacent vertices are adjacent in the graph $G$. In 2010, Gao and Qiao independently proved a graph of order at least $4s$, in which the neighborhood union of any two nonadjacent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Zaiping Lu , Shudan Xue

A circular arc graph is the intersection graph of a collection of connected arcs on the circle. We solve a Tur'an-type problem for circular arc graphs: for n arcs, if m and M are the minimum and maximum number of arcs that contain a common…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Rosalie Carlson , Stephen Flood , Kevin O'Neill , Francis Edward Su

In previous work, the author defined the intersection graph of a chord diagram associated with string links (as in the theory of finite type invariants). In this paper, we classify the trees which can be obtained as intersection graphs of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Blake Mellor

A k-digraph is an orientation of a multi-graph that is without loops and contains at most k edges between any pair of distinct vertices. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a sequence of non-negative integers in non-decreasing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Pirzada , U. Samee

We prove that there are intersection graphs of axis-aligned boxes in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and intersection graphs of straight lines in $\mathbb{R}^3$ that have arbitrarily large girth and chromatic number.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-08 James Davies

Nut graphs are graphs whose adjacency matrix is singular with one-dimensional null space spanned by a vector with no zero entries. In a recent paper, Ba\v{s}i\'c, Fowler and Pisanski proved that the automorphism group of a nut graph has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Ksenija Rozman , Primož Šparl

A cocomparability graph is a graph whose complement admits a transitive orientation. An interval graph is the intersection graph of a family of intervals on the real line. In this paper we investigate the relationships between interval and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Jérémie Dusart , Michel Habib , Derek G. Corneil

A graph class is monotone if it is closed under taking subgraphs. It is known that a monotone class defined by finitely many obstructions has bounded treewidth if and only if one of the obstructions is a so-called tripod, that is, a…

Let $D$ be a strongly connected digraphs on $n\ge 4$ vertices. A vertex $v$ of $D$ is noncritical, if the digraph $D-v$ is strongly connected. We prove, that if sum of the degrees of any two adjacent vertices of $D$ is at least $n+1$, then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-06 G. V. Nenashev

A blocking quadruple (BQ) is a quadruple of vertices of a graph such that any two vertices of the quadruple either miss (have no neighbours on) some path connecting the remaining two vertices of the quadruple, or are connected by some path…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Mathew Francis , Pavol Hell , Juraj Stacho

A pseudoline arrangement graph is a planar graph induced by an embedding of a (simple) pseudoline arrangement. We study the corresponding graph realization problem and properties of pseudoline arrangement graphs. In the first part, we give…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Sandip Das , Siddani Bhaskara Rao , Uma kant Sahoo

In 1966 Gallai asked whether all longest paths in a connected graph have nonempty intersection. This is not true in general and various counterexamples have been found. However, the answer to Gallai's question is positive for several…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Julia Ehrenmüller , Cristina G. Fernandes , Carl Georg Heise

We define the crossing graph of a given embedded graph (such as a road network) to be a graph with a vertex for each edge of the embedding, with two crossing graph vertices adjacent when the corresponding two edges of the embedding cross…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-20 David Eppstein , Siddharth Gupta

Planar graphs can be represented as intersection graphs of different types of geometric objects in the plane, e.g., circles (Koebe, 1936), line segments (Chalopin \& Gon{\c{c}}alves, 2009), \textsc{L}-shapes (Gon{\c{c}}alves et al, 2018).…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Dibyayan Chakraborty , Kshitij Gajjar

Flip graphs of combinatorial and geometric objects are at the heart of many deep structural insights and connections between different branches of discrete mathematics and computer science. They also provide a natural framework for the…

The two graphs of the title both have vertex set G. In the intersection power graph, x and y are joined if some non-identity element is a power of both; in the power graph, x and y joined if one is a power of the other. Thus the power graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Sudip Bera , Peter J. Cameron

An ordered graph $G_<$ is a graph with a total ordering $<$ on its vertex set. A monotone path of length $k$ is a sequence of vertices $v_1<v_2<\ldots<v_k$ such that $v_iv_{j}$ is an edge of $G_<$ if and only if $|j-i|=1$. A bi-clique of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Janos Pach , Istvan Tomon

Many NP-Hard problems on general graphs, such as maximum independence set, maximal cliques and graph coloring can be solved efficiently on chordal graphs. In this paper, we explore the problem of non-separating st-paths defined on edges:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Xiao Mao

Consider two parallel lines $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$. A rail arc is an embedding of an arc in $\mathbb{R}^3$ such that one endpoint is on $\ell_1$, the other is on $\ell_2$, and its interior is disjoint from…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Nicholas Cazet