On the cubicity of bipartite graphs

  • Authors:
  • L. Sunil Chandran;Anita Das;Naveen Sivadasan

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science and Automation Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India;Computer Science and Automation Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India;Advanced Technology Center, Tata Consultancy Services, 1, Software Units Layout, Madhapur, Hyderabad 500081, India

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A unit cube in k-dimension (or a k-cube) is defined as the Cartesian product R"1xR"2x...xR"k, where each R"i is a closed interval on the real line of the form [a"i,a"i+1]. The cubicity of G, denoted as cub(G), is the minimum k such that G is the intersection graph of a collection of k-cubes. Many NP-complete graph problems can be solved efficiently or have good approximation ratios in graphs of low cubicity. In most of these cases the first step is to get a low dimensional cube representation of the given graph. It is known that for a graph G, cub(G)=