The LBFS Structure and Recognition of Interval Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Derek G. Corneil;Stephan Olariu;Lorna Stewart

  • Affiliations:
  • dgc@cs.utoronto.ca;olariu@cs.odu.edu;stewart@cs.ualberta.ca

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A graph is an interval graph if it is the intersection graph of intervals on a line. Interval graphs are known to be the intersection of chordal graphs and asteroidal triple-free graphs, two families where the well-known lexicographic breadth first search (LBFS) plays an important algorithmic and structural role. In this paper we show that interval graphs have a very rich LBFS structure and that by exploiting this structure one can design a linear time, easily implementable, interval graph recognition algorithm.