Polynomial time recognition of P4-structure

  • Authors:
  • R. B. Hayward;S. Hougardy;B. A. Reed

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10099 Berlin Germany;McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  • Venue:
  • SODA '02 Proceedings of the thirteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A P4 is a set of four vertices of a graph that induces a chordless path; the P4-structure of a graph is the set of all P4's. Vašek Chvátal asked if there is a polynomial time algorithm to determine whether an arbitrary four-uniform hypergraph is the P4-structure of some graph. The answer is yes; we present such an algorithm.