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On chordal and perfect plane near-triangulations

Sameera M Salam·Daphna Chacko·Nandini J Warrier·K Murali Krishnan·Sudeep K S
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A plane near-triangulation G can be decomposed into a collection of induced subgraphs, described here as the W-components of G, such that G is perfect (respectively, chordal) if and only if each of its W-components is perfect (respectively, chordal). Each W-component is a 2-connected plane near-triangulation, free of edge separators and separating triangles. Graphs satisfying these conditions will be called W-near-triangulations. A linear time decomposition of G into its W-components is achievable using known techniques from the literature. W-near-triangulations have the property that the open neighbourhood of every internal vertex induces a cycle. It follows that a W-near-triangulation H of at least five vertices is non-chordal if and only if it contains an internal vertex. This yields a local structural characterization that a plane near-triangulation G is chordal if and only if it does not contain an induced wheel of at least five vertices. For W-near-triangulations that are free of induced wheels of five vertices, we derive a similar local criteria, that depends only on the neighbourhoods of individual vertices and faces, for checking perfectness. We show that a W-near-triangulation H that is free of any induced wheel of five vertices is perfect if and only if there exists neither an internal vertex x, nor a face f such that, the neighbours of x or f induces an odd hole. The above characterization leads to a linear time algorithm for determining perfectness of this class of graphs.

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Sameera M Salam, Daphna Chacko, Nandini J Warrier, K Murali Krishnan, Sudeep K S. 2019-08-22. On chordal and perfect plane near-triangulations. https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03447

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