Recognizing bipartite tolerance graphs in linear time

  • Authors:
  • Arthur H. Busch;Garth Isaak

  • Affiliations:
  • Unviersity of Dayton, Dayton, OH;Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

  • Venue:
  • WG'07 Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on Graph-theoretic concepts in computer science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A graph G = (V,E) is a tolerance graph if each vertex v ∈ V can be associated with an interval of the real line Iv and a positive real number tv in such a way that (uv) ∈ E if and only if |Iv ∩ Iu| ≥ min(tv, tu). No algorithm for recognizing tolerance graphs in general is known. In this paper we present an O(n + m) algorithm for recognizing tolerance graphs that are also bipartite, where n and m are the number vertices and edges of the graph, respectively. We also give a new structural characterization of these graphs based on the algorithm.