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Combinatorial Problems on -graphs
Bir\'{o}, Hujter, and Tuza introduced the concept of -graphs (1992),
intersection graphs of connected subgraphs of a subdivision of a graph .
They naturally generalize many important classes of graphs, e.g., interval
graphs and circular-arc graphs. We continue the study of these graph classes by
considering coloring, clique, and isomorphism problems on -graphs.
We show that for any fixed containing a certain 3-node, 6-edge multigraph
as a minor that the clique problem is APX-hard on -graphs and the
isomorphism problem is isomorphism-complete. We also provide positive results
on -graphs. Namely, when is a cactus the clique problem can be solved in
polynomial time. Also, when a graph has a Helly -representation, the
clique problem can be solved in polynomial time. Finally, we observe that one
can use treewidth techniques to show that both the -clique and list
-coloring problems are FPT on -graphs. These FPT results apply more
generally to treewidth-bounded graph classes where treewidth is bounded by a
function of the clique number
Edge clique graphs and some classes of chordal graphs
The edge clique graph of a graph G is one having as vertices the edges of G, two vertices being adjacent if the corresponding edges of G belong to a common clique. This class of graphs has been introduced by Albertson and Collins (1984). Although many interesting properties of it have been since studied, we do not know complete characterizations of edge clique graphs of any non trivial class of graphs. In this paper, we describe characterizations relative to edge clique graphs and some classes of chordal graphs, such as starlike, starlikethreshold, split and threshold graphs. In special, a known necessary condition for a graph to be an edge clique graph is that the sizes of all maximal cliques and intersections of ma.ximal cliques ought to be triangular numbers. We show that this condition is also suflicient for starlike-threshold graphs
Cliques in rank-1 random graphs: the role of inhomogeneity
We study the asymptotic behavior of the clique number in rank-1 inhomogeneous
random graphs, where edge probabilities between vertices are roughly
proportional to the product of their vertex weights. We show that the clique
number is concentrated on at most two consecutive integers, for which we
provide an expression. Interestingly, the order of the clique number is
primarily determined by the overall edge density, with the inhomogeneity only
affecting multiplicative constants or adding at most a
multiplicative factor. For sparse enough graphs the clique number is always
bounded and the effect of inhomogeneity completely vanishes.Comment: 29 page
Computing maximum cliques in -EPG graphs
EPG graphs, introduced by Golumbic et al. in 2009, are edge-intersection
graphs of paths on an orthogonal grid. The class -EPG is the subclass of
EPG graphs where the path on the grid associated to each vertex has at most
bends. Epstein et al. showed in 2013 that computing a maximum clique in
-EPG graphs is polynomial. As remarked in [Heldt et al., 2014], when the
number of bends is at least , the class contains -interval graphs for
which computing a maximum clique is an NP-hard problem. The complexity status
of the Maximum Clique problem remains open for and -EPG graphs. In
this paper, we show that we can compute a maximum clique in polynomial time in
-EPG graphs given a representation of the graph.
Moreover, we show that a simple counting argument provides a
-approximation for the coloring problem on -EPG graphs without
knowing the representation of the graph. It generalizes a result of [Epstein et
al, 2013] on -EPG graphs (where the representation was needed)
The Structure and Properties of Clique Graphs of Regular Graphs
In the following thesis, the structure and properties of G and its clique graph clt (G) are analyzed for graphs G that are non-complete, regular with degree δ , and where every edge of G is contained in a t -clique. In a clique graph clt (G), all cliques of order t of the original graph G become the clique graph’s vertices, and the vertices of the clique graph are adjacent if and only if the corresponding cliques in the original graph have at least 1 vertex in common. This thesis mainly investigates if properties of regular graphs are carried over to clique graphs of regular graphs. In particular, the first question considered is whether the clique graph of a regular graph must also be regular. It is shown that while line graphs, cl2(G), of regular graphs are regular, the degree difference of the clique graph cl3(R) can be arbitrarily large using δ -regular graphs R with δ ≥ 3. Next, the question of whether a clique graph can have a large independent set is considered (independent sets in regular graphs can be composed of half the vertices in the graph at the most). In particular, the relation between the degree difference and the independence number of clt (G) will be analyzed. Lastly, we close with some further questions regarding clique graphs
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