The niche graphs of interval orders

Abstract: The niche graph of a digraph

D

is the (simple undirected) graph which has the same vertex set as

D

and has an edge between two distinct vertices

x

and

y

if and only if

N_{D}^{+} (x) c a p N_{D}^{+} (y) e q e m p t y s e t

or

N_{D}^{-} (x) c a p N_{D}^{-} (y) e q e m p t y s e t

, where

N_{D}^{+} (x)

(resp.

N_{D}^{-} (x)

) is the set of out-neighbors (resp. in-neighbors) of

x

in

D

. A digraph

D = (V, A)

is called a semiorder (or a unit interval order) if there exist a real-valued function

f : V o m a t h b b R

on the set

V

and a positive real number

d e l t a i n m a t h b b R

such that

(x, y) i n A

if and only if

f (x) > f (y) + d e l t a

. A digraph

D = (V, A)

is called an interval order if there exists an assignment

J

of a closed real interval

J (x) s u b s e t m a t h b b R

to each vertex

x i n V

such that

(x, y) i n A

if and only if

m i n J (x) > m a x J (y)

. S. -R. Kim and F. S. Roberts characterized the competition graphs of semiorders and interval orders in 2002, and Y. Sano characterized the competition-common enemy graphs of semiorders and interval orders in 2010. In this note, we give characterizations of the niche graphs of semiorders and interval orders.

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