Complexity of approximating the oriented diameter of chordal graphs

  • Authors:
  • Fedor V. Fomin;Martín Matamala;Ivan Rapaport

  • Affiliations:
  • Heinz Nixdorf Institute and University of Paderborn, Fürstenallee 11, D-33102 Paderborn, Germany;Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática and Centro de Modelamiento Matemático UMR 2071-CNRS, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 170-3, Correo 3, Santiago, Chile;Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática and Centro de Modelamiento Matemático UMR 2071-CNRS, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 170-3, Correo 3, Santiago, Chile

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Graph Theory
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The oriented diameter of a bridgeless connected undirected(bcu) graph G is the smallest diameter among all thediameters of strongly connected orientations of G. We studyalgorithmic aspects of determining the oriented diameter of achordal graph. We (a) construct a linear-time approximationalgorithm that, for a given chordal bcu graph G,finds a strongly connected orientation of G with diameter atmost one plus twice the oriented diameter of G; (b) provethat, for every k≥ 2 and k ≠ 3, to decidewhether a chordal (split for k = 2) bcu graphG admits an orientation of diameter k isNP-complete; (c) show that, unless P = NP,there is neither a polynomial-time absolute approximation algorithmnor an ±-approximation algorithm that computes the orienteddiameter of a bcu chordal graph for ±