On minimal forbidden subgraph characterizations of balanced graphs

  • Authors:
  • Flavia Bonomo;Guillermo DuráN;MartíN D. Safe;Annegret K. Wagler

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

A graph is balanced if its clique-matrix contains no edge-vertex incidence matrix of an odd chordless cycle as a submatrix. While a forbidden induced subgraph characterization of balanced graphs is known, there is no such characterization by minimal forbidden induced subgraphs. In this work, we provide minimal forbidden induced subgraph characterizations of balanced graphs restricted to graphs that belong to one of the following graph classes: complements of bipartite graphs, line graphs of multigraphs, and complements of line graphs of multigraphs. These characterizations lead to linear-time recognition algorithms for balanced graphs within the same three graph classes.