On Total and Edge-colouring of Proper Circular-arc Graphs

Deciding if a graph is Δ-edge-colourable (resp. (Δ + 1)-total colourable), although it is an NP-complete problem for graphs in general, is polynomially solvable for interval graphs of odd (resp. even) maximum degree Δ. An interesting superclass of the proper interval graphs are the proper circular-arc graphs, for which we suspect that Δ-edge-colourability is linear-time decidable. This work presents sufficient conditions for Δ-edge-colourability, (Δ + 1)-total colourability, and (Δ+2)-total colourability of proper circular-arc graphs. Our proofs are constructive and yield polynomial-time algorithms.

Isomorphism of graph classes related to the circular-ones property

Discrete Algorithms International audience We give a linear-time algorithm that checks for isomorphism between two 0-1 matrices that obey the circular-ones property. Our algorithm is similar to the isomorphism algorithm for interval graphs of Lueker and Booth, but works on PC trees, which are unrooted and have a cyclic nature, rather than with PQ trees, which are rooted. This algorithm leads to linear-time isomorphism algorithms for related graph classes, including Helly circular-arc graphs, Γ circular-arc graphs, proper circular-arc graphs and convex-round graphs.