On nested and 2-nested graphs: two subclasses of graphs between threshold and split graphs

NINA PARDAL; GUILLERMO DURÁN; MARTÍN SAFE; LUCIANO GRIPPO

MATEMáTICA CONTEMPORâNEA

Sociedade Brasileira de Matematica

Lugar: Río de Janeiro; Año: 2019

0103-9059

A (0, 1)-matrix has the Consecutive Ones Property (C1P) for the rows if there is a permutation of its columns such that the ones in each row appear consecutively. We say a (0,1)-matrix is nested if it has the con- secutive ones property for the rows (C1P) and every two rows are either disjoint or nested. We say a (0,1)-matrix is 2-nested if it has the C1P and admits a partition of its rows into two sets such that the submatrix induced by each of these sets is nested. We say a split graph G with split partition (K,S) is nested (resp. 2-nested) if the matrix A(S,K) which indicates the adjacency between vertices in S and K is nested (resp. 2- nested). In this work, we characterize nested and 2-nested matrices by minimal forbidden submatrices. This characterization leads to a minimal forbidden induced subgraph characterization for these classes of graphs, which are a superclass of threshold graphs and a subclass of split and circle graphs.