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Algorithms for recognizing bipartite-Helly and bipartite-conformal hypergraphs*, **
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2011
Abstract
A hypergraph is Helly if every family of hyperedges of it, formed by pairwise intersecting hyperedges, has a common vertex. We consider the concepts of bipartite-conformal and (colored) bipartite-Helly hypergraphs. In the same way as conformal hypergraphs and Helly hypergraphs are dual concepts, bipartite-conformal and bipartite-Helly hypergraphs are also dual. They are useful for characterizing biclique matrices and biclique graphs, that is, the incident biclique-vertex incidence matrix and the intersection graphs of the maximal bicliques of a graph, respectively. These concepts play a similar role for the bicliques of a graph, as do clique matrices and clique graphs, for the cliques of the graph. We describe polynomial time algorithms for recognizing bipartite-conformal and bipartite-Helly hypergraphs as well as biclique matrices.
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