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Record W4414785272 · doi:10.37236/12956

Graphs of Bounded Chordality

2025· article· en· W4414785272 on OpenAlexafffund
Aristotelis Chaniotis, Babak Miraftab, Sophie Spirkl

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Electronic Journal of Combinatorics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicLand Rights and Reforms
Canadian institutionsUniversity of WaterlooCarleton University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaGovernment of Ontario
KeywordsChordal graphIndifference graphSplit graphPathwidthInterval graphBlock graphIntersection graphTreewidthClique-sum

Abstract

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A hole in a graph is an induced subgraph which is a cycle of length at least four. A graph is chordal if it contains no holes. Following McKee and Scheinerman (1993), we define the chordality of a graph $G$ to be the minimum number of chordal graphs on $V(G)$ such that the intersection of their edge sets is equal to $E(G)$. In this paper we study classes of graphs of bounded chordality.In the 1970s, Buneman, Gavril, and Walter, proved independently that chordal graphs are exactly the intersection graphs of subtrees in trees. We generalize this result by proving that the graphs of chordality at most $k$ are exactly the intersection graphs of convex subgraphs of median graphs of tree-dimension$k$.A hereditary class of graphs $\mathcal{A}$ is $\chi$-bounded if there exists a function $ f\colon \mathbb{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that for every graph $G\in \mathcal{A}$, we have $\chi(G) \leq f(\omega(G))$. In 1960, Asplund and Grünbaum proved that the class of all graphs of boxicity at most two is $\chi$-bounded. In his seminal paper "Problems from the world surrounding perfect graphs," Gyárfás (1985), motivated by the above result, asked whether the class of all graphs of chordality at most two, which we denote by $\mathcal{C}\,{\mathop{\cap}\limits_{\raise.2ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle\bullet$}}}\,\mathcal{C}$, is $\chi$-bounded. We discuss a result of Felsner, Joret, Micek, Trotter and Wiechert (2017), concerning tree-decompositions of Burling graphs, which implies an answer to Gyárfás' question in the negative. We prove that two natural families of subclasses of $\mathcal{C}\,{\mathop{\cap}\limits_{\bullet}}\,\mathcal{C}$ are polynomially $\chi$-bounded.Finally, we prove that for every $k\geq 3$ the $k$-Chordality Problem, which asks to decide whether a graph has chordality at most $k$, is NP-complete.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.019

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.211
Teacher spread0.205 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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