Clique graph recognition is NP-complete

  • Authors:
  • L. Alcón;L. Faria;C. M. H. de Figueiredo;M. Gutierrez

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Matemática, UNLP, Argentina;Departamento de Matemática, FFP, UERJ, Brazil;Instituto de Matemática and COPPE, UFRJ, Brazil;Departamento de Matemática, UNLP, Argentina

  • Venue:
  • WG'06 Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A complete set of a graph G is a subset of V inducing a complete subgraph. A clique is a maximal complete set. Denote by the clique family of G. The clique graph of G, denoted by K(G), is the intersection graph of . Say that G is a clique graph if there exists a graph H such that G=K(H). The clique graph recognition problem asks whether a given graph is a clique graph. A sufficient condition was given by Hamelink in 1968, and a characterization was proposed by Roberts and Spencer in 1971. We prove that the clique graph recognition problem is NP-complete.