The complexity of clique graph recognition

A complete set of a graph G is a subset of vertices inducing a complete subgraph. A clique is a maximal complete set. Denote by C (G) the clique family of G. The clique graph of G, denoted by K (G), is the intersection graph of C (G). Say that G is a clique graph if there exists a graph H such that...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Alcón, Liliana Graciela, Faria, Luerbio, Figueiredo, Celina M. H. de, Gutiérrez, Marisa
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2009
País:Argentina
Recursos:Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Repositório:SEDICI (UNLP)
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/82662
Acesso em linha:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/82662
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Matemática
Clique graphs
Helly property
Intersection graphs
NP-complete problems
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Resumo:A complete set of a graph G is a subset of vertices inducing a complete subgraph. A clique is a maximal complete set. Denote by C (G) the clique family of G. The clique graph of G, denoted by K (G), is the intersection graph of C (G). Say that G is a clique graph if there exists a graph H such that G = K (H). The clique graph recognition problem asks whether a given graph is a clique graph. A sufficient condition was given by Hamelink in 1968, and a characterization was proposed by Roberts and Spencer in 1971. However, the time complexity of the problem of recognizing clique graphs is a long-standing open question. We prove that the clique graph recognition problem is NP-complete.