id: 06053934 dt: j an: 06053934 au: Li, Bo-Jr; Chang, Gerard J. ti: The competition number of a graph with exactly two holes. so: J. Comb. Optim. 23, No. 1, 1-8 (2012). py: 2012 pu: Springer, Dordrecht la: EN cc: ut: competition graph; competition number; chordal graph; chordless cycle; hole ci: li: doi:10.1007/s10878-010-9331-9 ab: Summary: Given an acyclic digraph $D$, the competition graph $C(D)$ of $D$ is the graph with the same vertex set as $D$ and two distinct vertices $x$ and $y$ are adjacent in $C(D)$ if and only if there is a vertex $v$ in $D$ such that $(x,v)$ and $(y,v)$ are arcs of $D$. The competition number $κ(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least number of isolated vertices that must be added to $G$ to form a competition graph. The purpose of this paper is to prove that the competition number of a graph with exactly two holes is at most three. rv: