Bandwidth of bipartite permutation graphs in polynomial time

  • Authors:
  • Pinar Heggernes;Dieter Kratsch;Daniel Meister

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway;Laboratoire d'Informatique Théorique et Appliquée, Université Paul Verlaine-Metz, Metz Cedex 01, France;Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

  • Venue:
  • LATIN'08 Proceedings of the 8th Latin American conference on Theoretical informatics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We give the first polynomial-time algorithm that computes the bandwidth of bipartite permutation graphs. Prior to our work, polynomial-time algorithms for exact computation of bandwidth were known only for caterpillars of hair length 2, chain graphs, cographs, and interval graphs.