Characterisations and linear-time recognition of probe cographs

  • Authors:
  • Van Bang Le;H. N. De Ridder

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany;Institut für Informatik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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

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Abstract

Cographs are those graphs without induced path on four vertices. A graph G is a probe cograph if its vertex set can be partitioned into two sets, N (non-probes) and P (probes) where N is independent and G can be extended to a cograph by adding edges between certain non-probes. A partitioned probe cograph is a probe cograph with a given partition in N and P. We characterise probe cographs in several ways. Moreover, we characterise partitioned probe cographs in terms of five forbidden induced subgraphs. Using the forbidden induced subgraph characterisation, we give a linear-time recognition algorithm for probe cographs, improving the recent quadratic-time recognition algorithm by Chandler et al. Our algorithm is a modification of the linear-time recognition algorithm for cographs by Corneil et al.