Interval Graph
In graph theory, an interval graph is an undirected graph formed from a set of intervals on the real line, with a vertex for each interval and an edge between vertices whose intervals intersect. It is the intersection graph of the intervals. Interval graphs are chordal graphs and perfect graphs. They can be recognized in linear time, and an optimal graph coloring or maximum clique in these graphs can be found in linear time. The interval graphs include all proper interval graphs, graphs defined in the same way from a set of unit intervals. These graphs have been used to model food webs, and to study scheduling problems in which one must select a subset of tasks to be performed at non-overlapping times. Other applications include assembling contiguous subsequences in DNA mapping, and temporal reasoning. Definition An interval graph is an undirected graph formed from a family of intervals :S_i,\quad i=0,1,2,\dots by creating one vertex for each interval , and connecting two ver ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Interval Graph
In graph theory, an interval graph is an undirected graph formed from a set of intervals on the real line, with a vertex for each interval and an edge between vertices whose intervals intersect. It is the intersection graph of the intervals. Interval graphs are chordal graphs and perfect graphs. They can be recognized in linear time, and an optimal graph coloring or maximum clique in these graphs can be found in linear time. The interval graphs include all proper interval graphs, graphs defined in the same way from a set of unit intervals. These graphs have been used to model food webs, and to study scheduling problems in which one must select a subset of tasks to be performed at non-overlapping times. Other applications include assembling contiguous subsequences in DNA mapping, and temporal reasoning. Definition An interval graph is an undirected graph formed from a family of intervals :S_i,\quad i=0,1,2,\dots by creating one vertex for each interval , and connecting two ver ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cycle Graph
In graph theory, a cycle graph or circular graph is a graph that consists of a single cycle, or in other words, some number of vertices (at least 3, if the graph is simple) connected in a closed chain. The cycle graph with vertices is called . The number of vertices in equals the number of edges, and every vertex has degree 2; that is, every vertex has exactly two edges incident with it. Terminology There are many synonyms for "cycle graph". These include simple cycle graph and cyclic graph, although the latter term is less often used, because it can also refer to graphs which are merely not acyclic. Among graph theorists, cycle, polygon, or ''n''-gon are also often used. The term ''n''-cycle is sometimes used in other settings. A cycle with an even number of vertices is called an even cycle; a cycle with an odd number of vertices is called an odd cycle. Properties A cycle graph is: * 2-edge colorable, if and only if it has an even number of vertices * 2-regular * 2-ve ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Boxicity
In graph theory, boxicity is a graph invariant, introduced by Fred S. Roberts in 1969. The boxicity of a graph is the minimum dimension in which a given graph can be represented as an intersection graph of axis-parallel box (shape), boxes. That is, there must exist a one-to-one correspondence between the vertex (graph theory), vertices of the graph and a set of boxes, such that two boxes intersect if and only if there is an edge connecting the corresponding vertices. Examples The figure shows a graph with six vertices, and a representation of this graph as an intersection graph of rectangles (two-dimensional boxes). This graph cannot be represented as an intersection graph of boxes in any lower dimension, so its boxicity is two. showed that the graph with 2''n'' vertices formed by removing a perfect matching from a complete graph on 2''n'' vertices has boxicity exactly ''n'': each pair of disconnected vertices must be represented by boxes that are separated in a different dimens ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Trivially Perfect Graph
In graph theory, a trivially perfect graph is a graph with the property that in each of its induced subgraphs the size of the maximum independent set equals the number of maximal cliques. Trivially perfect graphs were first studied by but were named by ; Golumbic writes that "the name was chosen since it is trivial to show that such a graph is perfect." Trivially perfect graphs are also known as comparability graphs of trees, arborescent comparability graphs, and quasi-threshold graphs. Equivalent characterizations Trivially perfect graphs have several other equivalent characterizations: *They are the comparability graphs of order-theoretic trees. That is, let be a partial order such that for each , the set is well-ordered by the relation , and also possesses a minimum element . Then the comparability graph of is trivially perfect, and every trivially perfect graph can be formed in this way. *They are the graphs that do not have a path graph or a cycle graph as induced sub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Permutation Graph
In the mathematical field of graph theory, a permutation graph is a graph whose vertices represent the elements of a permutation, and whose edges represent pairs of elements that are reversed by the permutation. Permutation graphs may also be defined geometrically, as the intersection graphs of line segments whose endpoints lie on two parallel lines. Different permutations may give rise to the same permutation graph; a given graph has a unique representation (up to permutation symmetry) if it is prime with respect to the modular decomposition. Definition and characterization If \rho = (\sigma_1,\sigma_2,...,\sigma_n) is any permutation of the numbers from 1 to n, then one may define a permutation graph from \sigma in which there are n vertices v_1, v_2, ..., v_n, and in which there is an edge v_i v_j for any two indices i and j for which i\sigma_j. That is, two indices i and j determine an edge in the permutation graph exactly when they determine an inversion in the permutatio ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Split Graph
In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, a split graph is a graph in which the vertices can be partitioned into a clique and an independent set. Split graphs were first studied by , and independently introduced by . A split graph may have more than one partition into a clique and an independent set; for instance, the path is a split graph, the vertices of which can be partitioned in three different ways: #the clique and the independent set #the clique and the independent set #the clique and the independent set Split graphs can be characterized in terms of their forbidden induced subgraphs: a graph is split if and only if no induced subgraph is a cycle on four or five vertices, or a pair of disjoint edges (the complement of a 4-cycle). Relation to other graph families From the definition, split graphs are clearly closed under complementation. Another characterization of split graphs involves complementation: they are chordal graphs the complements of which are also ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Interval Order
In mathematics, especially order theory, the interval order for a collection of intervals on the real line is the partial order corresponding to their left-to-right precedence relation—one interval, ''I''1, being considered less than another, ''I''2, if ''I''1 is completely to the left of ''I''2. More formally, a countable poset P = (X, \leq) is an interval order if and only if there exists a bijection from X to a set of real intervals, so x_i \mapsto (\ell_i, r_i) , such that for any x_i, x_j \in X we have x_i , a left nesting is an i \in n/math> such that i < i+1 < f(i+1) < f(i) and a right nesting is an |
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Complement Graph
In the mathematical field of graph theory, the complement or inverse of a graph is a graph on the same vertices such that two distinct vertices of are adjacent if and only if they are not adjacent in . That is, to generate the complement of a graph, one fills in all the missing edges required to form a complete graph, and removes all the edges that were previously there.. The complement is not the set complement of the graph; only the edges are complemented. Definition Let be a simple graph and let consist of all 2-element subsets of . Then is the complement of , where is the relative complement of in . For directed graphs, the complement can be defined in the same way, as a directed graph on the same vertex set, using the set of all 2-element ordered pairs of in place of the set in the formula above. In terms of the adjacency matrix ''A'' of the graph, if ''Q'' is the adjacency matrix of the complete graph of the same number of vertices (i.e. all entries are unity ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Strongly Chordal Graph
In the mathematical area of graph theory, an undirected graph is strongly chordal if it is a chordal graph and every cycle of even length (≥ 6) in has an ''odd chord'', i.e., an edge that connects two vertices that are an odd distance (>1) apart from each other in the cycle. Characterizations Strongly chordal graphs have a forbidden subgraph characterization as the graphs that do not contain an induced cycle of length greater than three or an ''n''-sun (''n'' ≥ 3) as an induced subgraph. An ''n''-sun is a chordal graph with 2''n'' vertices, partitioned into two subsets ''U'' = and ''W'' = , such that each vertex ''wi'' in ''W'' has exactly two neighbors, ''u''''i'' and ''u''(''i'' + 1) mod ''n''. An ''n''-sun cannot be strongly chordal, because the cycle ''u''1''w''1''u''2''w''2... has no odd chord. Strongly chordal graphs may also be characterized as the graphs having a strong perfect elimination ordering, an ordering o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Complement (graph Theory)
In the mathematical field of graph theory, the complement or inverse of a graph is a graph on the same vertices such that two distinct vertices of are adjacent if and only if they are not adjacent in . That is, to generate the complement of a graph, one fills in all the missing edges required to form a complete graph, and removes all the edges that were previously there.. The complement is not the set complement of the graph; only the edges are complemented. Definition Let be a simple graph and let consist of all 2-element subsets of . Then is the complement of , where is the relative complement of in . For directed graphs, the complement can be defined in the same way, as a directed graph on the same vertex set, using the set of all 2-element ordered pairs of in place of the set in the formula above. In terms of the adjacency matrix ''A'' of the graph, if ''Q'' is the adjacency matrix of the complete graph of the same number of vertices (i.e. all entries are unity ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chordal Graph
In the mathematical area of graph theory, a chordal graph is one in which all cycles of four or more vertices have a ''chord'', which is an edge that is not part of the cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle. Equivalently, every induced cycle in the graph should have exactly three vertices. The chordal graphs may also be characterized as the graphs that have perfect elimination orderings, as the graphs in which each minimal separator is a clique, and as the intersection graphs of subtrees of a tree. They are sometimes also called rigid circuit graphs. or triangulated graphs.. Chordal graphs are a subset of the perfect graphs. They may be recognized in linear time, and several problems that are hard on other classes of graphs such as graph coloring may be solved in polynomial time when the input is chordal. The treewidth of an arbitrary graph may be characterized by the size of the cliques in the chordal graphs that contain it. Perfect elimination and efficient recognit ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lexicographic Breadth-first Search
In computer science, lexicographic breadth-first search or Lex-BFS is a linear time algorithm for ordering the vertices of a graph. The algorithm is different from a breadth-first search, but it produces an ordering that is consistent with breadth-first search. The lexicographic breadth-first search algorithm is based on the idea of partition refinement and was first developed by . A more detailed survey of the topic is presented by . It has been used as a subroutine in other graph algorithms including the recognition of chordal graphs, and optimal coloring of distance-hereditary graphs. Background The breadth-first search algorithm is commonly defined by the following process: *Initialize a queue of graph vertices, with the starting vertex of the graph as the queue's only element. *While the queue is non-empty, remove (dequeue) a vertex from the queue, and add to the queue (enqueue) all the other vertices that can be reached by an edge from that have not already been added in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |