Computing minimum geodetic sets of proper interval graphs

  • Authors:
  • Tınaz Ekim;Aysel Erey;Pinar Heggernes;Pim van 't Hof;Daniel Meister

  • Affiliations:
  • Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey;Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey;University of Bergen, Norway;University of Bergen, Norway;University of Trier, Germany

  • Venue:
  • LATIN'12 Proceedings of the 10th Latin American international conference on Theoretical Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We show that the geodetic number of proper interval graphs can be computed in polynomial time. This problem is NP-hard on chordal graphs and on bipartite weakly chordal graphs. Only an upper bound on the geodetic number of proper interval graphs has been known prior to our result.