DIMACS TR: 2002-54

On the band-, tree- and clique-width of graphs with bounded vertex degree



Authors: Vadim Lozin and Dieter Rautenbach

ABSTRACT

The band-, tree- and clique-width are of primary importance in algorithmic graph theory due to the fact that many problems being NP-hard for general graphs can be solved in polynomial time when restricted to graphs where one of these parameters is bounded. It is known that for any fixed $\Delta\geq 3$, all three parameters are unbounded for graphs with vertex degree at most $\Delta$. In this paper, we distinguish representative subclasses of graphs with bounded vertex degree that have bounded band-, tree- or clique-width. Our proofs are constructive and lead to efficient algorithms for a variety of NP-hard graph problems when restricted to those classes.

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