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Linear-Time Algorithms for Finding Tucker Submatrices and Lekkerkerker-Boland Subgraphs

Discrete Mathematics 2014-01-03 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms Combinatorics

Abstract

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 forbidden submatrices of binary matrices that do not have the consecutive-ones property. We give a linear-time algorithm to find one in any binary matrix that does not have the consecutive-ones property.

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@article{arxiv.1401.0224,
  title  = {Linear-Time Algorithms for Finding Tucker Submatrices and Lekkerkerker-Boland Subgraphs},
  author = {Nathan Lindzey and Ross M. McConnell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0224},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

A preliminary version of this work appeared in WG13: 39th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science

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