Characterizing and computing minimal cograph completions

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Lokshtanov;Federico Mancini;Charis Papadopoulos

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway;Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway;Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

A cograph completion of an arbitrary graph G is a cograph supergraph of G on the same vertex set. Such a completion is called minimal if the set of edges added to G is inclusion minimal. In this paper we present two results on minimal cograph completions. The first is a characterization that allows us to check in linear time whether a given cograph completion is minimal. The second result is a vertex incremental algorithm to compute a minimal cograph completion H of an arbitrary input graph G in O(|V(H)|+|E(H)|) time. An extended abstract of the result has been already presented at FAW 2008 [D. Lokshtanov, F. Mancini, C. Papadopoulos, Characterizing and computing minimal cograph completions, in: Proceedings of FAW'08-2nd International Frontiers of Algorithmics Workshop, in: LNCS, vol. 5059, 2008, pp. 147158. [1]].