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The LexCycle on $\overline{P_{2}\cup P_{3}}$-free Cocomparability Graphs

Xiao-Lu Gao, Shou-Jun Xu
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April 18, 2019
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December 9, 2020
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December 28, 2020
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March 31, 2025
Volume 22
vol. 22:4
Graph Theory
DOI
10.23638/DMTCS-22-4-13
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The LexCycle on $\overline{P_{2}\cup P_{3}}$-free Cocomparability Graphs

Xiao-Lu Gao, Shou-Jun Xu
Abstract
A graph $G$ is a cocomparability graph if there exists an acyclic transitive orientation of the edges of its complement graph $\overline{G}$. LBFS$^{+}$ is a variant of the generic Lexicographic Breadth First Search (LBFS), which uses a specific tie-breaking mechanism. Starting with some ordering $\sigma_{0}$ of $G$, let $\{\sigma_{i}\}_{i\geq 1}$ be the sequence of orderings such that $\sigma_{i}=$LBFS$^{+}(G, \sigma_{i-1})$. The LexCycle($G$) is defined as the maximum length of a cycle of vertex orderings of $G$ obtained via such a sequence of LBFS$^{+}$ sweeps. Dusart and Habib conjectured in 2017 that LexCycle($G$)=2 if $G$ is a cocomparability graph and proved it holds for interval graphs. In this paper, we show that LexCycle($G$)=2 if $G$ is a $\overline{P_{2}\cup P_{3}}$-free cocomparability graph, where a $\overline{P_{2}\cup P_{3}}$ is the graph whose complement is the disjoint union of $P_{2}$ and $P_{3}$. As corollaries, it's applicable for diamond-free cocomparability graphs, cocomparability graphs with girth at least 4, as well as interval graphs. Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures
Keywords
  • Mathematics - Combinatorics
Mathematics Subject Classification 2020
  • 05C85 - Graph algorithms (graph-theoretic aspects)
  • 05C99 - Graph theory
  • 68W05 - Nonnumerical algorithms
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