The clique operator on graphs with few P4's

  • Authors:
  • C. P. de Mello;A. Morgana;M. Liverani

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto de Computação, UNICAMP, Brasil;Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica, Università Roma Tre, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The clique graph of a graph G is the intersection graph K (G) of the (maximal) cliques of G. The iterated clique graphs Kn (G) are defined by KO(G) = G and Ki(G) = K(Ki-1(G)), i 0 and K is the clique operator. In this article we use the modular decomposition technique to characterize the K-behaviour of some classes of graphs with few P4's.These characterizations lead to polynomial time algorithms for deciding the K-convergence or K-divergence of any graph in the class.