Results on Some Generalizations of Interval Graphs

An interval graph is the intersection graph of a family of intervals on the real line. Interval graphs are a well-studied class of graphs. Path graphs are a generalization of interval graphs and are defined to be the intersection graphs of a family of paths in a tree. In this thesis, we study path graphs which are representable in a subdivided K1, 3. Our main results are a characterization theorem and a polynomial time algorithm for recognition of this class of graphs. The second section of this thesis provides a bound for a graph parameter, the boxicity of a graph, for intersection graphs of subtrees of subdivided K1, n. Finally, we characterize k-trees that are path graphs.