Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1995

DOI

10.1016/0166-218x(94)00012-3

Publication Title

Discrete Applied Mathematics

Volume

61

Issue

2

Pages

155-175

Abstract

Quite often, real-life applications suggest the study of graphs that feature some local density properties. In particular, graphs that are unlikely to have more than a few chordless paths of length three appear in a number of contexts. A graph G is P4-sparse if no set of five vertices in G induces more than one chordless path of length three. P4-sparse graphs generalize both the class of cographs and the class of P4-reducible graphs. It has been shown that P4-sparse graphs can be recognized in time linear in the size of the graph. The main contribution of this paper is to show that once the data structures returned by the recognition algorithm are in place, a number of NP-hard problems on general graphs can be solved in linear time for P4-sparse graphs. Specifically with an n-vertex P4-sparse graph as input the problems of finding a maximum size clique, maximum size stable set, a minimum coloring, a minimum covering by clique, and the size of the minimum fill-in can be solved in O(n) time, independent of the number of edges in the graph.

Comments

Elsevier open archive. Copyright © 1995 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original Publication Citation

Jamison, B., & Olariu, S. (1995). Linear-time optimization algorithms for P4-sparse graphs. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 61(2), 155-175. doi:10.1016/0166-218x(94)00012-3

ORCID

0000-0002-3776-216X (Olariu)

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