Detecting induced subgraphs

Abstract

An s-graph is a graph with two kinds of edges : subdivisible edges and real edges. A realisation of an s-graphB is any graph obtained by subdividing subdivisible edges of B into paths of arbitrary length (at least one). Given an s-graph B, we study the decision problem Pi(B) whose instance is a graph G and whose question is "Does G contain a realisation of B as an induced subgraph ?".Detection, induced, subgraph.