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Helly-gap of a graph and vertex eccentricities

05/05/2020
by   Feodor F. Dragan, et al.
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A new metric parameter for a graph, Helly-gap, is introduced. A graph G is called α-weakly-Helly if any system of pairwise intersecting disks in G has a nonempty common intersection when the radius of each disk is increased by an additive value α. The minimum α for which a graph G is α-weakly-Helly is called the Helly-gap of G and denoted by α(G). The Helly-gap of a graph G is characterized by distances in the injective hull ℋ(G), which is a (unique) minimal Helly graph which contains G as an isometric subgraph. This characterization is used as a tool to generalize many eccentricity related results known for Helly graphs (α(G)=0), as well as for chordal graphs (α(G)≤ 1), distance-hereditary graphs (α(G)≤ 1) and δ-hyperbolic graphs (α(G)≤ 2δ), to all graphs, parameterized by their Helly-gap α(G). Several additional graph classes are shown to have a bounded Helly-gap, including AT-free graphs and graphs with bounded tree-length, bounded chordality or bounded α_i-metric.

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