FAST ALGORITHMS OF DUALLY CHORDAL GRAPHS

MIHAI TALMACIU

Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Education Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacău, Calea Mărăşeşti 157, Bacău 600115, ROMANIA, e-mail: mtalmaciu@ub.ro, mihaitalmaciu@yahoo.com

Abstract

We give a characterization of hereditary dually chordal graphs using weak decomposition. We also give a recognition algorithm for hereditary dually chordal graphs and we determine the combinatorial optimization numbers in efficient time.

Keywords

chordal graphs dually chordal graphs hereditary dually chordal graphs weak decomposition recognition algorithm