Largest chordal and interval subgraphs faster than 2^n

Abstract

We prove that in an n-vertex graph, induced chordal and interval subgraphs with the maximum number of vertices can be found in time $O(2^{\lambda n})$ for some $\lambda<1$. These are the first algorithms breaking the trivial $2^n n^{O(1)}$ bound of the brute-force search for these problems.