Graph classes with structured neighborhoods and algorithmic applications

Given a graph in any of the following graph classes: trapezoid graphs, circular permutation graphs, convex graphs, Dilworth k graphs, k-polygon graphs, circular arc graphs and complements of k-degenerate graphs, we show how to compute decompositions with the number of d-neighborhoods bounded by a polynomial of the input size. Combined with results of Bui-Xuan, Telle and Vatshelle (2013)  [1] this leads to polynomial time algorithms for a large class of locally checkable vertex subset and vertex partitioning problems on all of these graph classes. The boolean-width of a graph is related to the number of 1-neighborhoods and our results imply that any of these graph classes have boolean-width O(logn).