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A Characterization of Mixed Unit Interval Graphs
We give a complete characterization of mixed unit interval graphs, the
intersection graphs of closed, open, and half-open unit intervals of the real
line. This is a proper superclass of the well known unit interval graphs. Our
result solves a problem posed by Dourado, Le, Protti, Rautenbach and
Szwarcfiter (Mixed unit interval graphs, Discrete Math. 312, 3357-3363 (2012)).Comment: 17 pages, referees' comments adde
Completion of the mixed unit interval graphs hierarchy
We describe the missing class of the hierarchy of mixed unit interval graphs,
generated by the intersection graphs of closed, open and one type of half-open
intervals of the real line. This class lies strictly between unit interval
graphs and mixed unit interval graphs. We give a complete characterization of
this new class, as well as quadratic-time algorithms that recognize graphs from
this class and produce a corresponding interval representation if one exists.
We also mention that the work in arXiv:1405.4247 directly extends to provide a
quadratic-time algorithm to recognize the class of mixed unit interval graphs.Comment: 17 pages, 36 figures (three not numbered). v1 Accepted in the TAMC
2015 conference. The recognition algorithm is faster in v2. One graph was not
listed in Theorem 7 of v1 of this paper v3 provides a proposition to
recognize the mixed unit interval graphs in quadratic time. v4 is a lot
cleare
Extremal Values of the Interval Number of a Graph
The interval number of a simple graph is the smallest number such that to each vertex in there can be assigned a collection of at most finite closed intervals on the real line so that there is an edge between vertices and in if and only if some interval for intersects some interval for . The well known interval graphs are precisely those graphs with . We prove here that for any graph with maximum degree . This bound is attained by every regular graph of degree with no triangles, so is best possible. The degree bound is applied to show that for graphs on vertices and for graphs with edges
Coloring triangle-free rectangle overlap graphs with colors
Recently, it was proved that triangle-free intersection graphs of line
segments in the plane can have chromatic number as large as . Essentially the same construction produces -chromatic
triangle-free intersection graphs of a variety of other geometric
shapes---those belonging to any class of compact arc-connected sets in
closed under horizontal scaling, vertical scaling, and
translation, except for axis-parallel rectangles. We show that this
construction is asymptotically optimal for intersection graphs of boundaries of
axis-parallel rectangles, which can be alternatively described as overlap
graphs of axis-parallel rectangles. That is, we prove that triangle-free
rectangle overlap graphs have chromatic number , improving on
the previous bound of . To this end, we exploit a relationship
between off-line coloring of rectangle overlap graphs and on-line coloring of
interval overlap graphs. Our coloring method decomposes the graph into a
bounded number of subgraphs with a tree-like structure that "encodes"
strategies of the adversary in the on-line coloring problem. Then, these
subgraphs are colored with colors using a combination of
techniques from on-line algorithms (first-fit) and data structure design
(heavy-light decomposition).Comment: Minor revisio
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