On minimal vertex separators of dually chordal graphs: properties and characterizations

Many works related to dually chordal graphs, their cliques and neighborhoods were published by Brandstädt et al. (1998) and Gutierrez (1996). We will undertake a similar study by considering minimal vertex separators and their properties instead. We find a necessary and sufficient condition for ever...

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Autores principales: De Caria, Pablo Jesús, Gutiérrez, Marisa
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Publicado: 2012
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/83624
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topic Matemática
Chordal
Clique
Dually chordal
Neighborhood
Separator
Tree
spellingShingle Matemática
Chordal
Clique
Dually chordal
Neighborhood
Separator
Tree
De Caria, Pablo Jesús
Gutiérrez, Marisa
On minimal vertex separators of dually chordal graphs: properties and characterizations
topic_facet Matemática
Chordal
Clique
Dually chordal
Neighborhood
Separator
Tree
description Many works related to dually chordal graphs, their cliques and neighborhoods were published by Brandstädt et al. (1998) and Gutierrez (1996). We will undertake a similar study by considering minimal vertex separators and their properties instead. We find a necessary and sufficient condition for every minimal vertex separator to be contained in the closed neighborhood of a vertex and two major characterizations of dually chordal graphs are proved. The first states that a graph is dually chordal if and only if it possesses a spanning tree such that every minimal vertex separator induces a subtree. The second says that a graph is dually chordal if and only if the family of minimal vertex separators is Helly, its intersection graph is chordal and each of its members induces a connected subgraph. We also found adaptations for them, requiring just O(|E(G)|) minimal vertex separators if they are conveniently chosen. We obtain at the end a proof of a known characterization of the class of hereditary dually chordal graphs that relies on the properties of minimal vertex separators.
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author De Caria, Pablo Jesús
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title On minimal vertex separators of dually chordal graphs: properties and characterizations
title_short On minimal vertex separators of dually chordal graphs: properties and characterizations
title_full On minimal vertex separators of dually chordal graphs: properties and characterizations
title_fullStr On minimal vertex separators of dually chordal graphs: properties and characterizations
title_full_unstemmed On minimal vertex separators of dually chordal graphs: properties and characterizations
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