scholarly journals Applications of a New Separator Theorem for String Graphs

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
JACOB FOX ◽  
JÁNOS PACH
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Present Note ◽  
Intersection Graph ◽  
Type Result ◽  
Vertex Separator ◽  
String Graphs ◽  
String Graph ◽  
Ramsey Type ◽  
Separator Theorem

An intersection graph of curves in the plane is called astring graph. Matoušek almost completely settled a conjecture of the authors by showing that every string graph withmedges admits a vertex separator of size$O(\sqrt{m}\log m)$. In the present note, this bound is combined with a result of the authors, according to which every dense string graph contains a large complete balanced bipartite graph. Three applications are given concerning string graphsGwithnvertices: (i) ifKt⊈Gfor somet, then the chromatic number ofGis at most (logn)O(logt); (ii) ifKt,t⊈G, thenGhas at mostt(logt)O(1)nedges,; and (iii) a lopsided Ramsey-type result, which shows that the Erdős–Hajnal conjecture almost holds for string graphs.

scholarly journals A Separator Theorem for String Graphs and its Applications

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
JACOB FOX ◽  
JÁNOS PACH
Keyword(s):  
Intersection Graph ◽  
Equal Size ◽  
Bipartite Subgraph ◽  
String Graphs ◽  
String Graph ◽  
Complete Bipartite Subgraph ◽  
Labelled Trees ◽  
Separator Theorem ◽  
Labelled Graphs

A string graph is the intersection graph of a collection of continuous arcs in the plane. We show that any string graph with m edges can be separated into two parts of roughly equal size by the removal of $O(m^{3/4}\sqrt{\log m})$ vertices. This result is then used to deduce that every string graph with n vertices and no complete bipartite subgraph Kt,t has at most ctn edges, where ct is a constant depending only on t. Another application shows that locally tree-like string graphs are globally tree-like: for any ε > 0, there is an integer g(ε) such that every string graph with n vertices and girth at least g(ε) has at most (1 + ε)n edges. Furthermore, the number of such labelled graphs is at most (1 + ε)nT(n), where T(n) = nn−2 is the number of labelled trees on n vertices.

scholarly journals Near-Optimal Separators in String Graphs

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIŘÍ MATOUŠEK
Keyword(s):  
Intersection Graph ◽  
String Graphs ◽  
String Graph

Let G be a string graph (an intersection graph of continuous arcs in the plane) with m edges. Fox and Pach proved that G has a separator consisting of $O(m^{3/4}\sqrt{\log m})$ vertices, and they conjectured that the bound of $O(\sqrt m)$ actually holds. We obtain separators with $O(\sqrt m \,\log m)$ vertices.

INTERSECTION GRAPH OF SUBMODULES OF A MODULE

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 1250019 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. AKBARI ◽  
H. A. TAVALLAEE ◽  
S. KHALASHI GHEZELAHMAD
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Clique Number ◽  
Simple Graph ◽  
Intersection Graph ◽  
Star Graph ◽  
Graph Theoretic ◽  
Nonzero Intersection ◽  
One To One

Let R be a ring with identity and M be a unitary left R-module. The intersection graph of an R-moduleM, denoted by G(M), is defined to be the undirected simple graph whose vertices are in one to one correspondence with all non-trivial submodules of M and two distinct vertices are adjacent if and only if the corresponding submodules of M have nonzero intersection. We investigate the interplay between the module-theoretic properties of M and the graph-theoretic properties of G(M). We characterize all modules for which the intersection graph of submodules is connected. Also the diameter and the girth of G(M) are determined. We study the clique number and the chromatic number of G(M). Among other results, it is shown that if G(M) is a bipartite graph, then G(M) is a star graph.

scholarly journals A Sharp Threshold Phenomenon in String Graphs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
István Tomon
Keyword(s):  
Recent Result ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Intersection Graph ◽  
Edge Density ◽  
Sharp Threshold ◽  
Threshold Phenomenon ◽  
String Graphs ◽  
String Graph ◽  
Special Case

AbstractA string graph is the intersection graph of curves in the plane. We prove that for every $$\epsilon >0$$ ϵ > 0 , if G is a string graph with n vertices such that the edge density of G is below $${1}/{4}-\epsilon $$ 1 / 4 - ϵ , then V(G) contains two linear sized subsets A and B with no edges between them. The constant 1/4 is a sharp threshold for this phenomenon as there are string graphs with edge density less than $${1}/{4}+\epsilon $$ 1 / 4 + ϵ such that there is an edge connecting any two logarithmic sized subsets of the vertices. The existence of linear sized sets A and B with no edges between them in sufficiently sparse string graphs is a direct consequence of a recent result of Lee about separators. Our main theorem finds the largest possible density for which this still holds. In the special case when the curves are x-monotone, the same result was proved by Pach and the author of this paper, who also proposed the conjecture for the general case.

scholarly journals On the Chromatic Number of Intersection Graphs of Convex Sets in the Plane

10.37236/1805 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seog-Jin Kim ◽  
Alexandr Kostochka ◽  
Kittikorn Nakprasit
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Convex Sets ◽  
Convex Set ◽  
Clique Number ◽  
Finite Family ◽  
Intersection Graph ◽  
Intersection Graphs ◽  
Homothetic Copies

Let $G$ be the intersection graph of a finite family of convex sets obtained by translations of a fixed convex set in the plane. We show that every such graph with clique number $k$ is $(3k-3)$-degenerate. This bound is sharp. As a consequence, we derive that $G$ is $(3k-2)$-colorable. We show also that the chromatic number of every intersection graph $H$ of a family of homothetic copies of a fixed convex set in the plane with clique number $k$ is at most $6k-6$.

k-Degenerate Graphs

1970 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 1082-1096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don R. Lick ◽  
Arthur T. White
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Complete Bipartite Graph ◽  
Natural Numbers ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Disconnected Graphs ◽  
Totally Disconnected

Graphs possessing a certain property are often characterized in terms of a type of configuration or subgraph which they cannot possess. For example, a graph is totally disconnected (or, has chromatic number one) if and only if it contains no lines; a graph is a forest (or, has point-arboricity one) if and only if it contains no cycles. Chartrand, Geller, and Hedetniemi [2] defined a graph to have property Pn if it contains no subgraph homeomorphic from the complete graph Kn+1 or the complete bipartite graphFor the first four natural numbers n, the graphs with property Pn are exactly the totally disconnected graphs, forests, outerplanar and planar graphs, respectively. This unification suggested the extension of many results known to hold for one of the above four classes of graphs to one or more of the remaining classes.

A RAMSEY TYPE RESULT FOR LATIN SQUARES

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-366
Author(s):  
YEVHEN ZELENYUK ◽  
YULIYA ZELENYUK
Keyword(s):  
Cartesian Product ◽  
Latin Square ◽  
Latin Squares ◽  
Multiplication Table ◽  
The Other ◽  
Type Result ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Ramsey Type

We show that for all $m,k,r\in \mathbb{N}$, there is an $n\in \mathbb{N}$ such that whenever $L$ is a Latin square of order $m$ and the Cartesian product $L^{n}$ of $n$ copies of $L$ is $r$-coloured, there is a monochrome Latin subsquare of $L^{n}$, isotopic to $L^{k}$. In particular, for every prime $p$ and for all $k,r\in \mathbb{N}$, there is an $n\in \mathbb{N}$ such that whenever the multiplication table $L({\mathbb{Z}_{p}}^{n})$ of the group ${\mathbb{Z}_{p}}^{n}$ is $r$-coloured, there is a monochrome Latin subsquare of order $p^{k}$. On the other hand, we show that for every group $G$ of order $\leq 15$, there is a 2-colouring of $L(G)$ without a nontrivial monochrome Latin subsquare.

b-Chromatic sum of a graph

2015 ◽  
Vol 07 (04) ◽  
pp. 1550040 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. C. Lisna ◽  
M. S. Sunitha
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Complete Bipartite Graph ◽  
Double Star ◽  
Star Graph ◽  
Proper Coloring ◽  
Color Class ◽  
Wheel Graph ◽  
Chromatic Sum

A b-coloring of a graph G is a proper coloring of the vertices of G such that there exists a vertex in each color class joined to at least one vertex in each other color classes. The b-chromatic number of a graph G, denoted by [Formula: see text], is the maximum integer [Formula: see text] such that G admits a b-coloring with [Formula: see text] colors. In this paper we introduce a new concept, the b-chromatic sum of a graph [Formula: see text], denoted by [Formula: see text] and is defined as the minimum of sum of colors [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] for all [Formula: see text] in a b-coloring of [Formula: see text] using [Formula: see text] colors. Also obtained the b-chromatic sum of paths, cycles, wheel graph, complete graph, star graph, double star graph, complete bipartite graph, corona of paths and corona of cycles.

A Ramsey-type result for the hypercube

2006 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noga Alon ◽  
Radoš Radoičić ◽  
Benny Sudakov ◽  
Jan Vondrák
Keyword(s):  
Type Result ◽  
Ramsey Type
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