{"title":"On semi-transitive orientability of split graphs","authors":"Sergey Kitaev , Artem Pyatkin","doi":"10.1016/j.ipl.2023.106435","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A directed graph is semi-transitive if and only if it is acyclic and for any directed path <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>→</mo><msub><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub><mo>→</mo><mo>⋯</mo><mo>→</mo><msub><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>t</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>, <span><math><mi>t</mi><mo>≥</mo><mn>2</mn></math></span>, either there is no edge from <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> to <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>t</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> or all edges <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>i</mi></mrow></msub><mo>→</mo><msub><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>j</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> exist for <span><math><mn>1</mn><mo>≤</mo><mi>i</mi><mo><</mo><mi>j</mi><mo>≤</mo><mi>t</mi></math></span>. An undirected graph is semi-transitive if it admits a semi-transitive orientation. Recognizing semi-transitive orientability of a graph is an NP-complete problem.</p><p>A split graph is a graph in which the vertices can be partitioned into a clique and an independent set. Semi-transitive orientability of split graphs was recently studied in a series of papers in the literature. The main result in this paper is proving that recognition of semi-transitive orientability of split graphs can be done in a polynomial time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56290,"journal":{"name":"Information Processing Letters","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106435"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Information Processing Letters","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020019023000789","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A directed graph is semi-transitive if and only if it is acyclic and for any directed path , , either there is no edge from to or all edges exist for . An undirected graph is semi-transitive if it admits a semi-transitive orientation. Recognizing semi-transitive orientability of a graph is an NP-complete problem.
A split graph is a graph in which the vertices can be partitioned into a clique and an independent set. Semi-transitive orientability of split graphs was recently studied in a series of papers in the literature. The main result in this paper is proving that recognition of semi-transitive orientability of split graphs can be done in a polynomial time.
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