Linear structure of bipartite permutation graphs and the longest path problem

  • Authors:
  • Ryuhei Uehara;Gabriel Valiente

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Science, JAIST, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan;Department of Software, Technical University of Catalonia, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The class of bipartite permutation graphs is the intersection of two well known graph classes: bipartite graphs and permutation graphs. A complete bipartite decomposition of a bipartite permutation graph is proposed in this note. The decomposition gives a linear structure of bipartite permutation graphs, and it can be obtained in O(n) time, where n is the number of vertices. As an application of the decomposition, we show an O(n) time and space algorithm for finding a longest path in a bipartite permutation graph.