On the convexity number for complementary prisms

09/21/2018

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by   Diane Castonguay, et al.

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In the geodetic convexity, a set of vertices S of a graph G is convex if all vertices belonging to any shortest path between two vertices of S lie in S. The cardinality con(G) of a maximum proper convex set S of G is the convexity number of G. The complementary prism GG of a graph G arises from the disjoint union of the graph G and G by adding the edges of a perfect matching between the corresponding vertices of G and G. In this work, we we prove that the decision problem related to the convexity number is NP-complete even restricted to complementary prisms, we determine con(GG) when G is disconnected or G is a cograph, and we present a lower bound when diam(G) ≠ 3.