We prove that the ordered subgraph number of a connected graph that has no duplicate vertices is at most three if and only if the complement does not contain a cycle on four vertices. The duality between zero forcing and ordered subgraphs then provides a complementary characterization for positive semidefinite zero forcing. We also provide some necessary conditions for when the minimum semidefinite rank can be computed using tree size.
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