## Common intervals and permutation reconstruction from MinMax-betweenness constraints.(English)Zbl 1400.68150

Summary: The MinMax-Betweenness problem is defined as follows. We are given a positive integer $$n$$ and, for each $$t = 0, 1, 2, \dots, n$$, two integers $$m_t$$ and $$M_t$$ with $$m_t \leq t$$ and $$t + 1 \leq M_t$$ (this is called a MinMax-profile). The question is: Is there a permutation $$P$$ on $$\{0, 1, 2, \dots, n + 1 \}$$ such that $$m_t$$ is the minimum and $$M_t$$ is the maximum element of $$P$$ located between $$t$$ (included) and $$t + 1$$ (included), assuming 0 is the leftmost and $$n + 1$$ is the rightmost element of $$P$$?
We consider here the directed variant of the problem, where the left-to-right order of $$t$$ and $$t + 1$$ on $$P$$ is known for each $$t = 0, 1, 2, \dots, n$$. Whereas the complexity of the general directed or undirected problem is open, the particular case of the directed variant where the intervals $$[m_t . . M_t]$$ ($$t \neq 0, n + 1$$), containing the integers between $$m_t$$ (included) and $$M_t$$ (included), are linearly ordered by inclusion is polynomially solvable. In this case, the MinMax-profile is called linear.
In this paper, we use separable MinMax-subprofiles, that are intimately related to common intervals, to deal with MinMax-profiles – that we name L-reducible – which are not linear, but present decomposition properties allowing us to handle them using linear MinMax-(sub)profiles. We show that for L-reducible MinMax-profiles the Directed MinMax-Betweenness problem is solvable in polynomial time. We also give a polynomial algorithm to recognize L-reducible MinMax-profiles, with running time of $$O(n^2)$$.
Moreover, we show that the DirectedMin-Betweenness (resp. DirectedMax-Betweenness) problem, where only $$m_t$$ (resp. only $$M_t$$) is given for each $$t = 0, 1, 2, \dots, n$$, is polynomial.

### MSC:

 68R05 Combinatorics in computer science 05A05 Permutations, words, matrices 68Q25 Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity 68W05 Nonnumerical algorithms

### Keywords:

betweenness; permutation; algorithm; common intervals

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