Title
A tight bound on the length of odd cycles in the incompatibility graph of a non-C1P matrix
Abstract
A binary matrix has the Consecutive Ones Property (C1P) if it is possible to order the columns so that all 1s are consecutive in every row. In [McConnell, SODA 2004, pp. 768-777] the notion of incompatibility graph of a binary matrix was introduced and it was shown that odd cycles of this graph provide a certificate that a matrix does not have the Consecutive Ones Property. A bound of k+2 was claimed for the smallest odd cycle of a non-C1P matrix with k columns. In this Note we show that this result can be obtained simply and directly via Tucker patterns, and that the correct bound is k+2 when k is even, but k+3 when k is odd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.ipl.2012.07.004
Information Processing Letters
Keywords
DocType
Volume
binary matrix,non-c1p matrix,k column,odd cycle,smallest odd cycle,tucker pattern,incompatibility graph,data structure
Journal
112
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
20
0020-0190
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mehrnoush Malekesmaeili110.39
cedric chauve242941.81
Tamon Stephen312116.03