Well-quasi-ordering versus clique-width: new results on bigenic classes

Dabrowski, K.K.; Lozin, V.V.; Paulusma, D.; Mäkinen, Veli; Puglisi, Simon J.; Salmela, Leena

Abstract

Daligault, Rao and Thomassé conjectured that if a hereditary class of graphs is well-quasi-ordered by the induced subgraph relation then it has bounded clique-width. Lozin, Razgon and Zamaraev recently showed that this conjecture is not true for infinitely defined classes. For finitely defined classes the conjecture is still open. It is known to hold for classes of graphs defined by a single forbidden induced subgraph H, as such graphs are well-quasi-ordered and are of bounded clique-width if and only if H is an induced subgraph of P4P4. For bigenic classes of graphs i.e. ones defined by two forbidden induced subgraphs there are several open cases in both classifications. We reduce the number of open cases for well-quasi-orderability of such classes from 12 to 9. Our results agree with the conjecture and imply that there are only two remaining cases to verify for bigenic classes.

Citation

Dabrowski, K., Lozin, V., Paulusma, D., Mäkinen, V., Puglisi, S. J., & Salmela, L. (2016). Well-quasi-ordering versus clique-width: new results on bigenic classes. In Combinatorial algorithms : 27th international workshop, IWOCA 2016, Helsinki, Finland, August 17-19, 2016 ; proceedings (253-265). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44543-4_20

• Conference Name: 27th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA 2016).
• Conference Location: Helsinki, Finland
• Start Date: Aug 17, 2016
• End Date: Aug 19, 2016
• Acceptance Date: Jul 15, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Aug 9, 2016
• Publication Date: Aug 9, 2016
• Deposit Date: Oct 1, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 9, 2017
• Pages: 253-265
• Series Title: Lecture notes in computer science
• Series Number: 9843
• Series ISSN: 0302-9743,1611-3349
• Book Title: Combinatorial algorithms : 27th international workshop, IWOCA 2016, Helsinki, Finland, August 17-19, 2016 ; proceedings.
• ISBN: 9783319445427
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44543-4_20