The clique-width of tree-power and leaf-power graphs

  • Authors:
  • Frank Gurski;Egon Wanke

  • Affiliations:
  • Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Institute of Computer Science, Düsseldorf, Germany;Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Institute of Computer Science, Düsseldorf, Germany

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

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Abstract

The k-power graph of a graph G is the graph in which two vertices are adjacent if and only if there is a path between them in G of length at most k. We show that (1.) the k-power graph of a tree has NLC-width at most k+2 and clique-width at most k+2+max(⌊k/2⌋-1, 0), (2.) the k-leaf-power graph of a tree has NLC-width at most k and clique-width at most k+max(⌊k/2⌋-2, 0), and (3.) the k-power graph of a graph of tree-width l has NLC-width at most (k+1)l+1 - 1 and clique-width at most 2 ċ (k + 1)l+1 - 2.