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Transitive Orientation of Graphs and Identification of Permutation Graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

A. Pnueli
Affiliation:
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
A. Lempel
Affiliation:
Sperry Rand Research Center, Sudbury, Massachusetts
S. Even
Affiliation:
Sperry Rand Research Center, Sudbury, Massachusetts
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The graphs considered in this paper are assumed to be finite, with no edge joining a vertex to itself and with no two distinct edges joining the same pair of vertices. An undirected graph will be denoted by G or (V, E), where V is the set of vertices and E is the set of edges. An edge joining the vertices i,jV will be denoted by the unordered pair (i,j).

An orientation of G = (V, E) is an assignment of a unique direction ij or ji to every edge (i,j) ∊ E. The resulting directed image of G will be denoted by G or (V, E→), where E→ is now a set of ordered pairs E→ = {[i,j]| (i,j) ∊ E and ij}. Notice the difference in notation (brackets versus parentheses) for ordered and unordered pairs.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

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