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On the structure of normalized models of circular-arc graphs -- Hsu's approach revisited

Tomasz Krawczyk
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Circular-arc graphs are the intersection graphs of arcs of a circle. The main result of this work describes the structure of all \emph{normalized intersection models} of circular-arc graphs. Normalized models of a circular-arc graph reflect the neighborhood relation between its vertices and can be seen as its canonical representations; in particular, any intersection model can be made normalized by possibly extending some of its arcs. We~devise a data-structure, called \emph{PQM-tree}, that maintains the set of all normalized models of a circular-arc graph. We show that the PQM-tree of a circular-arc graph can be computed in linear time. Finally, basing on PQM-trees, we provide a linear-time algorithm for the canonization and the isomorphism problem for circular-arc graphs. We describe the structure of the normalized models of circular-arc graphs using an approach proposed by Hsu~[\emph{SIAM J. Comput. 24(3), 411--439, (1995)}]. In the aforementioned work, Hsu claimed the construction of decomposition trees representing the set of all normalized intersection models of circular-arc graphs and an $\mathcal{O}(nm)$ time isomorphism algorithm for this class of graphs. However, the counterexample given in~[\emph{Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci., 15(1), 157--182, 2013}] shows that Hsu's isomorphism algorithm is incorrect. Also, in a companion paper we show that the decomposition trees proposed by Hsu are not constructed correctly; in particular, we showed that there are circular-arc graphs whose all normalized models do not follow the description given by Hsu.

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Tomasz Krawczyk. 2024-11-26. On the structure of normalized models of circular-arc graphs -- Hsu's approach revisited. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13374

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