Graph parameters, implicit representations and factorial properties

Bogdan Alecu, Vladimir E. Alekseev, Aistis Atminas, Vadim Lozin, Viktor Zamaraev

How to efficiently represent a graph in computer memory is a fundamental data structuring question. In the present paper, we address this question from a combinatorial point of view. A representation of an $n$-vertex graph $G$ is called implicit if it assigns to each vertex of $G$ a binary code of length $O(\log n)$ so that the adjacency of two vertices is a function of their codes. A necessary condition for a hereditary class $X$ of graphs to admit an implicit representation is that $X$ has at most factorial speed of growth. This condition, however, is not sufficient, as was recently shown in [Hatami & Hatami, FOCS 2022]. Several sufficient conditions for the existence of implicit representations deal with boundedness of some parameters, such as degeneracy or clique-width. In the present paper, we analyze more graph parameters and prove a number of new results related to implicit representation and factorial properties.

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