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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 $xyxy\cdots$ (of even or odd length) or a word $yxyx\cdots$ (of even or odd length). A graph $G=(V,E)$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-29 Sergey Kitaev , Yangjing Long , Jun Ma , Hehui Wu

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 $xy\in E$. For integers $n>k>0 $, the shift graph $G(n,k)$ is the graph whose vertex set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Suchanda Roy , Ramesh Hariharasubramanian

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

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 $E$. Some graphs are word-representable, others are not. It is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Prosper Akrobotu , Sergey Kitaev , Zuzana Masárová

The class of Parikh word representable graphs were recently introduced. In this work, we further develop its general theory beyond the binary alphabet. Our main result shows that this class is equivalent to the class of bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Wen Chean Teh , Zhen Chuan Ng , Muhammad Javaid , Zi Jing Chern

A bipartite covering of a (multi)graph $G$ is a collection of bipartite graphs, so that each edge of $G$ belongs to at least one of them. The capacity of the covering is the sum of the numbers of vertices of these bipartite graphs. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Noga Alon

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 $G = (\{1, 2, \ldots, n\}, E)$ is $12$-representable if there is a word $w$ over $\{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$ such that two vertices $i$ and $j$ with $i < j$ are adjacent if and only if every $j$ occurs before every $i$ in $w$. These…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Asahi Takaoka

A graph $G=(V,E)$ is word-representable if there exists a word $w$ over the alphabet $V$ such that letters $x$ and $y$, $x\neq y$, alternate in $w$ if and only if $(x,y)\in E$. Halld\'{o}rsson et al.\ have shown that a graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-03 Thomas Z. Q. Chen , Sergey Kitaev , Brian Y. Sun

The notion of $12$-representable graphs was introduced as a variant of a well-known class of word-representable graphs. Recently, these graphs were shown to be equivalent to the complements of simple-triangle graphs. This indicates that a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Asahi Takaoka

A pair of letters $x$ and $y$ are said to alternate in a word $w$ if, after removing all letters except for the copies of $x$ and $y$ from $w$, the resulting word is of the form $xyxy\ldots$ (of even or odd length) or $yxyx\ldots$ (of even…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Suchanda Roy , Ramesh Hariharasubramanian

A graph $G = (V, E)$ is word-representable if there exists a word $w$ over the alphabet $V$ such that, for any two distinct vertices $x, y \in V$, $xy \in E$ if and only if $x$ and $y$ alternate in $w$. Two letters $x$ and $y$ are said to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Suchanda Roy , Ramesh Hariharasubramanian

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 $(x,y)\in E$. 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

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 2018-09-06 Gi-Sang Cheon , Jinha Kim , Minki Kim , Sergey Kitaev , Artem Pyatkin

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 $xyxy\cdots$ (of even or odd length) or a word $yxyx\cdots$ (of even or odd length). A graph $G=(V,E)$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-18 Sergey Kitaev

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

We introduce a new notation for representing labeled regular bipartite graphs of arbitrary degree. Several enumeration problems for labeled and unlabeled regular bipartite graphs have been introduced. A general algorithm for enumerating all…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Vivek S. Nittoor

Word-representable graphs, which are the same as semi-transitively orientable graphs, generalize several fundamental classes of graphs. In this paper we propose a novel approach to study word-representability of graphs using a technique of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Sumin Huang , 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