Efficient Computation of the Characteristic Polynomial of a Threshold Graph

نویسنده

  • Martin Fürer
چکیده

Abstract. An efficient algorithm is presented to compute the characteristic polynomial of a threshold graph. Threshold graphs were introduced by Chvátal and Hammer, as well as by Henderson and Zalcstein in 1977. A threshold graph is obtained from a one vertex graph by repeatedly adding either an isolated vertex or a dominating vertex, which is a vertex adjacent to all the other vertices. Threshold graphs are special kinds of cographs, which themselves are special kinds of graphs of clique-width 2. We obtain a running time of O(n log n) for computing the characteristic polynomial, while the previously fastest algorithm ran in quadratic time.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Theor. Comput. Sci.

دوره 657  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015