Boxicity of circular arc graphs

DOI10.1007/S00373-010-1002-1zbMATH Open1244.05184arXiv0810.5524OpenAlexW2030164286MaRDI QIDQ659754FDOQ659754

Authors: Diptendu Bhowmick, L. Sunil Chandran 

Publication date: 24 January 2012

Published in: Graphs and Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A $k$-dimensional box is the cartesian product $R_{1}imes{R}_{2}imes\mathrm{...}imes{R}_k$ where each $R_i$ is a closed interval on the real line. The {it boxicity} of a graph $G$, denoted as $box(G)$, is the minimum integer $k$ such that $G$ can be represented as the intersection graph of a collection of $k$-dimensional boxes: that is two vertices are adjacent if and only if their corresponding boxes intersect. A circular arc graph is a graph that can be represented as the intersection graph of arcs on a circle. Let $G$ be a circular arc graph with maximum degree $Delta$. We show that if $Delta<lfloorfracn(alpha-1)2alphafloor$, $alphainmathbbN$, $alphageq2$ then $box(G)leqalpha$. We also demonstrate a graph with boxicity $>alpha$ but with $Delta=nfrac(alpha-1)2alpha+fracn2alpha(alpha+1)+(alpha+2)$. So the result cannot be improved substantially when $alpha$ is large. Let $r_{inf}$ be minimum number of arcs passing through any point on the circle with respect to some circular arc representation of $G$. We also show that for any circular arc graph $G$, $box(G)leq{r}_{inf}+1$ and this bound is tight. Given a family of arcs $F$ on the circle, the circular cover number $L(F)$ is the cardinality of the smallest subset $F^{\prime }$ of $F$ such that the arcs in $F^{\prime }$ can cover the circle. Maximum circular cover number $L_{max}(G)$ is defined as the maximum value of $L(F)$ obtained over all possible family of arcs $F$ that can represent $G$. We will show that if $G$ is a circular arc graph with $L_{max}(G)>4$ then $box(G)leq3$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5524

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zbMATH Keywords

boxicitycircular arc graph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structural characterization of families of graphs (05C75)

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