Polarity and Monopolarity of $3$-colourable comparability graphs

Abstract

We sharpen the result that polarity and monopolarity are NP-complete problems by showing that they remain NP-complete if the input graph is restricted to be a $3$-colourable comparability graph. We start by presenting a construction reducing $1$-$3$-SAT to monopolarity of $3$-colourable comparability graphs. Then we show that polarity is at least as hard as monopolarity for input graphs restricted to a fixed disjoint-union-closed class. We conclude the paper by stating that both polarity and monopolarity of $3$-colourable comparability graphs are NP-complete problems.