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Recognizing d-Interval Graphs and d-Track Interval Graphs

Authors: Minghui Jiang;

Recognizing d-Interval Graphs and d-Track Interval Graphs

Abstract

A d-interval is the union of d disjoint intervals on the real line. A d-track interval is the union of d disjoint intervals on d disjoint parallel lines called tracks, one interval on each track. As generalizations of the ubiquitous interval graphs, d-interval graphs and d-track interval graphs have wide applications, traditionally to scheduling and resource allocation, and more recently to bioinformatics. In this paper, we prove that recognizing d-track interval graphs is NP-complete for any constant d ≥ 2. This confirms a conjecture of Gyarfas and West in 1995. Previously only the complexity of the d = 2 case was known. Our proof in fact implies that several restricted variants of this graph recognition problem, i.e, recognizing balanced d-track interval graphs, unit d-track interval graphs, and (2, ..., 2) d-track interval graphs, are all NP-complete. This partially answers another question recently raised by Gambette and Vialette. We also prove that recognizing depth-two 2-track interval graphs is NP-complete, even for the unit case. In sharp contrast, we present a simple linear-time algorithm for recognizing depth-two unit d-interval graphs. These and other results of ours give partial answers to a question of West and Shmoys in 1984 and a similar question of Gyarfas and West in 1995. Finally, we give the first bounds on the track number and the unit track number of a graph in terms of the number of vertices, the number of edges, and the maximum degree, and link the two numbers to the classical concepts of arboricity.

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