2009/02/06 by Olivier Durand de Gevigney, de Gévigney, Olivier Durand, Frédéric Meunier +7
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Advanced Graph Theory Research #Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs #Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #G.2.1 #Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0902.1182
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In the present paper, we study algorithmic questions for the arc-intersection graph of directed paths on a tree. Such graphs are known to be perfect (proved by Monma and Wei in 1986). We present faster algorithms than all previously known algorithms for solving the minimum coloring and the minimum clique cover problems. They both run in O(np) time, where n is the number of vertices of the tree and p the number of paths. Another result is a polynomial algorithm computing a kernel in the intersection graph, when its edges are oriented in a clique-acyclic way. Indeed, such a kernel exists for any perfect graph by a theorem of Boros and Gurvich. Such algorithms computing kernels are known only for few classes of perfect graphs.