Biclique covers and partitions (Q405095)

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    4 September 2014
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    Summary: The biclique cover number (resp. biclique partition number) of a graph \(G\), \(\text{bc}(G\)) (resp. \(\text{bp}(G)\)), is the least number of bicliques -- complete bipartite subgraphs -- that are needed to cover (resp. partition) the edges of \(G\). { }The local biclique cover number (resp. local biclique partition number) of a graph \(G\), \(\text{lbc}(G\)) (resp. \(\text{lbp}(G)\)), is the least \(r\) such that there is a cover (resp. partition) of the edges of \(G\) by bicliques with no vertex in more than \(r\) of these bicliques.{ }We show that \(\text{bp}(G)\) may be bounded in terms of \(\text{bc}(G)\), in particular, \(\text{bp}(G)\leq \frac{1}{2}(3^{\text{bc(G)}}-1)\). However, the analogous result does not hold for the local measures. Indeed, in our main result, we show that \(\text{lbp}(G)\) can be arbitrarily large, even for graphs with \(\text{lbc}(G)=2\). For such graphs, \(G\), we try to bound \(\text{lbp}(G)\) in terms of additional information about biclique covers of \(G\). We both answer and leave open questions related to this.{ }There is a well known link between biclique covers and subcube intersection graphs. We consider the problem of finding the least \(r(n)\) for which every graph on \(n\) vertices can be represented as a subcube intersection graph in which every subcube has dimension \(r\). We reduce this problem to the much studied question of finding the least \(d(n)\) such that every graph on \(n\) vertices is the intersection graph of subcubes of a \(d\)-dimensional cube.
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    biclique covers
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    biclique partitions
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    local biclique cover number
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    subcube intersection graphs
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