On the Cubicity of Interval Graphs

Chandran, Sunil L and Francis, Mathew C and Sivadasan, Naveen (2009) On the Cubicity of Interval Graphs. In: Graphs and combinatorics, 25 (2). pp. 169-179.

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Abstract

A k-cube (or ``a unit cube in k dimensions'') is defined as the Cartesian product R-1 x . . . x R-k where R-i (for 1 <= i <= k) is an interval of the form [a(i), a(i) + 1] on the real line. The k-cube representation of a graph G is a mapping of the vertices of G to k-cubes such that the k-cubes corresponding to two vertices in G have a non-empty intersection if and only if the vertices are adjacent. The cubicity of a graph G, denoted as cub(G), is defined as the minimum dimension k such that G has a k-cube representation. An interval graph is a graph that can be represented as the intersection of intervals on the real line - i. e., the vertices of an interval graph can be mapped to intervals on the real line such that two vertices are adjacent if and only if their corresponding intervals overlap. We show that for any interval graph G with maximum degree Delta, cub(G) <= inverted right perpendicular log(2) Delta inverted left perpendicular + 4. This upper bound is shown to be tight up to an additive constant of 4 by demonstrating interval graphs for which cubicity is equal to inverted right perpendicular log(2) Delta inverted left perpendicular.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Graphs and combinatorics
Publisher:	Springer
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to Springer.
Keywords:	Cubicity; Maximum degree; Interval graph
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited:	11 Dec 2009 11:17
Last Modified:	28 Feb 2019 08:39
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/20842

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