Hadwiger number of graphs with small chordality

The Hadwiger number of a graph G is the largest integer h such that G has the complete graph K_h as a minor. We show that the problem of determining the Hadwiger number of a graph is NP-hard on co-bipartite graphs, but can be solved in polynomial time on cographs and on bipartite permutation graphs. We also consider a natural generalization of this problem that asks for the largest integer h such that G has a minor with h vertices and diameter at most $s$. We show that this problem can be solved in polynomial time on AT-free graphs when s>=2, but is NP-hard on chordal graphs for every fixed s>=2

Hole의 관점에서 그래프와 유향그래프의 구조에 관한 연구

학위논문(박사)--서울대학교 대학원 :사범대학 수학교육과,2019. 8. 김서령.이 논문에서는 유향그래프와 그래프의 홀의 관점에서 계통발생 그래프와 그래프의 삼각화에 대하여 연구한다. 길이 4 이상인 유도된 싸이클을 홀이라 하고 홀이 없는 그래프를 삼각화된 그래프라 한다. 구체적으로, 싸이클을 갖지 않는 유향그래프의 계통발생 그래프가 삼각화된 그래프인지 판정하고, 주어진 그래프를 삼각화하여 클릭수가 크게 차이 나지 않는 그래프를 만드는 방법을 찾고자 한다. 이 논문은 연구 내용에 따라 두 부분으로 나뉜다. 먼저 $(1, i)$ 유향그래프와 $(i, 1)$ 유향그래프의 계통발생 그래프를 완전하게 특징화하고, $(2, j)$ 유향그래프 $D$의 모든 유향변에서 방향을 제거한 그래프가 삼각화된 그래프이면, $D$의 계통발생 그래프 역시 삼각화된 그래프임을 보였다. 또한 적은 수의 삼각형을 갖는 연결된 그래프의 계통발생수를 계산한 정리를 확장하여 많은 수의 삼각형을 포함한 연결된 그래프의 계통발생수를 계산하였다. 다른 한 편 그래프 $G$의 비삼각화 지수 $i(G)$에 대하여 $\omega(G^*)-\omega(G) \le i(G)$를 만족하는 $G$의 삼각화된 그래프 $G^*$가 존재함을 보였다. 그리고 이를 도구로 이용하여 NC property를 만족하는 그래프가 Hadwiger 추측과 Erd\H{o}s-Faber-Lov\'{a}sz 추측을 만족함을 증명하고, 비삼각화 지수가 유계인 그래프들이 linearly $\chi$-bounded임을 증명하였다.This thesis aims at studying phylogeny graphs and graph completions in the aspect of holes of graphs or digraphs. A hole of a graph is an induced cycle of length at least four and a graph is chordal if it does not contain a hole. Specifically, we determine whether the phylogeny graphs of acyclic digraphs are chordal or not and find a way of chordalizing a graph without increasing the size of maximum clique not so much. In this vein, the thesis is divided into two parts. In the first part, we completely characterize phylogeny graphs of $(1, i)$ digraphs and $(i,1)$ digraphs, respectively, for a positive integer $i$. Then, we show that the phylogeny graph of a $(2,j)$ digraph $D$ is chordal if the underlying graph of $D$ is chordal for any positive integer $j$. In addition, we extend the existing theorems computing phylogeny numbers of connected graph with a small number of triangles to results computing phylogeny numbers of connected graphs with many triangles. In the second part, we present a minimal chordal supergraph $G^*$ of a graph $G$ satisfying the inequality $\omega(G^*) - \omega(G) \le i(G)$ for the non-chordality index $i(G)$ of $G$. Using the above chordal supergraph as a tool, we prove that the family of graphs satisfying the NC property satisfies the Hadwiger conjecture and the Erd\H{o}s-Faber-Lov\'{a}sz Conjecture, and the family of graphs with bounded non-chordality indices is linearly $\chi$-bounded.Contents Abstract i 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Basic notions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.2.1 Phylogeny graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.2.2 Graph colorings and chordal completions . . . . . . . . 14 2 Phylogeny graphs 19 2.1 Chordal phylogeny graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.1.1 (1,j) phylogeny graphs and (i,1) phylogeny graphs . . 20 2.1.2 (2,j) phylogeny graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 2.2 The phylogeny number and the triangles and the diamonds of a graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3 A new minimal chordal completion 61 3.1 Graphs with the NC property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 3.2 The Erd˝ os-Faber-Lovász Conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 3.3 A minimal chordal completion of a graph . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 3.3.1 Non-chordality indices of graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 3.3.2 Making a local chordalization really local . . . . . . . . 89 3.4 New χ-bounded classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Abstract (in Korean) 107Docto

Contraction blockers for graphs with forbidden induced paths.

We consider the following problem: can a certain graph parameter of some given graph be reduced by at least d for some integer d via at most k edge contractions for some given integer k? We examine three graph parameters: the chromatic number, clique number and independence number. For each of these graph parameters we show that, when d is part of the input, this problem is polynomial-time solvable on P4-free graphs and NP-complete as well as W[1]-hard, with parameter d, for split graphs. As split graphs form a subclass of P5-free graphs, both results together give a complete complexity classification for Pℓ-free graphs. The W[1]-hardness result implies that it is unlikely that the problem is fixed-parameter tractable for split graphs with parameter d. But we do show, on the positive side, that the problem is polynomial-time solvable, for each parameter, on split graphs if d is fixed, i.e., not part of the input. We also initiate a study into other subclasses of perfect graphs, namely cobipartite graphs and interval graphs

Graphs of low chordality

The chordality of a graph with at least one cycle is the length of the longest induced cycle in it. The odd (even) chordality is defined to be the length of the longest induced odd (even) cycle in it. Chordal graphs have chordality at most 3. We show that co-circular-arc graphs and co-circle graphs have even chordality at most 4. We also identify few other classes of graphs having bounded (by a constant) chordality values

Simplicial decompositions of graphs: a survey of applications

AbstractWe survey applications of simplicial decompositions (decompositions by separating complete subgraphs) to problems in graph theory. Among the areas of application are excluded minor theorems, extremal graph theorems, chordal and interval graphs, infinite graph theory and algorithmic aspects

Reducing Graph Transversals via Edge Contractions

For a graph parameter ?, the Contraction(?) problem consists in, given a graph G and two positive integers k,d, deciding whether one can contract at most k edges of G to obtain a graph in which ? has dropped by at least d. Galby et al. [ISAAC 2019, MFCS 2019] recently studied the case where ? is the size of a minimum dominating set. We focus on graph parameters defined as the minimum size of a vertex set that hits all the occurrences of graphs in a collection ? according to a fixed containment relation. We prove co-NP-hardness results under some assumptions on the graphs in ?, which in particular imply that Contraction(?) is co-NP-hard even for fixed k = d = 1 when ? is the size of a minimum feedback vertex set or an odd cycle transversal. In sharp contrast, we show that when ? is the size of a minimum vertex cover, the problem is in XP parameterized by d