Partial characterizations of circle graphs

A circle graph is the intersection graph of a family of chords on a circle. There is no known characterization of circle graphs by forbidden induced subgraphs that do not involve the notions of local equivalence or pivoting operations. We characterize circle graphs by a list of minimal forbidden ind...

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Autores: Bonomo, F., Durán, G., Grippo, L.N., Safe, M.D.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Repositorio:Biblioteca Digital (UBA-FCEN)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:paperaa:paper_0166218X_v159_n16_p1699_Bonomo
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_0166218X_v159_n16_p1699_Bonomo
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:P 4-tidy graphs
Circle graphs
Helly circle graphs
Linear domino graphs
Tree-cographs
Unit circle graphs
<sup>P 4</sup>-tidy graphs
Unit circles
Graphic methods
Plant extracts
Trees (mathematics)
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Sumario:A circle graph is the intersection graph of a family of chords on a circle. There is no known characterization of circle graphs by forbidden induced subgraphs that do not involve the notions of local equivalence or pivoting operations. We characterize circle graphs by a list of minimal forbidden induced subgraphs when the graph belongs to one of the following classes: linear domino graphs, P4-tidy graphs, and tree-cographs. We also completely characterize by minimal forbidden induced subgraphs the class of unit Helly circle graphs, which are those circle graphs having a model whose chords have all the same length, are pairwise different, and satisfy the Helly property. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.