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Reduced clique graphs of chordal graphs
AbstractWe investigate the properties of chordal graphs that follow from the well-known fact that chordal graphs admit tree representations. In particular, we study the structure of reduced clique graphs which are graphs that canonically capture all tree representations of chordal graphs. We propose a novel decomposition of reduced clique graphs based on two operations: edge contraction and removal of the edges of a split. Based on this decomposition, we characterize asteroidal sets in chordal graphs, and discuss chordal graphs that admit a tree representation with a small number of leaves
The leafage of a chordal graph
The leafage l(G) of a chordal graph G is the minimum number of leaves of a
tree in which G has an intersection representation by subtrees. We obtain upper
and lower bounds on l(G) and compute it on special classes. The maximum of l(G)
on n-vertex graphs is n - lg n - (1/2) lg lg n + O(1). The proper leafage l*(G)
is the minimum number of leaves when no subtree may contain another; we obtain
upper and lower bounds on l*(G). Leafage equals proper leafage on claw-free
chordal graphs. We use asteroidal sets and structural properties of chordal
graphs.Comment: 19 pages, 3 figure
On asteroidal sets in chordal graphs
We analyze the relation between three parameters of a chordal graph G: the number of non-separating cliques nsc(G), the asteroidal number an(G) and the leafage l(G). We show that an(G) is equal to the maximum value of nsc(H) over all connected induced subgraphs H of G. As a corollary, we prove that if G has no separating simplicial cliques then an(G)=l(G). A graph G is minimal k-asteroidal if an(G)=k and an(H)3; for k=3 it is the family described by Lekerkerker and Boland to characterize interval graphs. We prove that, for every minimal k-asteroidal chordal graph, all the above parameters are equal to k. In addition, we characterize the split graphs that are minimal k-asteroidal and obtain all the minimal 4-asteroidal split graphs. Finally, we applied our results on asteroidal sets to describe the clutters with k edges that are minor-minimal in the sense that every minor has less than k edges.Facultad de Ciencias Exacta
Boxicity and Cubicity of Asteroidal Triple free graphs
An axis parallel -dimensional box is the Cartesian product where each is a closed interval on the real line.
The {\it boxicity} of a graph , denoted as \boxi(G), is the minimum
integer such that can be represented as the intersection graph of a
collection of -dimensional boxes. An axis parallel unit cube in
-dimensional space or a -cube is defined as the Cartesian product where each is a closed interval on the
real line of the form . The {\it cubicity} of , denoted as
\cub(G), is the minimum integer such that can be represented as the
intersection graph of a collection of -cubes.
Let denote a star graph on nodes. We define {\it claw number} of
a graph as the largest positive integer such that is an induced
subgraph of and denote it as \claw.
Let be an AT-free graph with chromatic number and claw number
\claw. In this paper we will show that \boxi(G) \leq \chi(G) and this bound
is tight. We also show that \cub(G) \leq \boxi(G)(\ceil{\log_2 \claw} +2)
\chi(G)(\ceil{\log_2 \claw} +2). If is an AT-free graph having
girth at least 5 then \boxi(G) \leq 2 and therefore \cub(G) \leq
2\ceil{\log_2 \claw} +4.Comment: 15 pages: We are replacing our earlier paper regarding boxicity of
permutation graphs with a superior result. Here we consider the boxicity of
AT-free graphs, which is a super class of permutation graph
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