On choosing a dense subgraph

  • Authors:
  • G. Kortsarz;D. Peleg

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Appl. Math.&Comput. Sci., Weizmann Inst. of Sci., Rehovot, Israel;Dept. of Appl. Math.&Comput. Sci., Weizmann Inst. of Sci., Rehovot, Israel

  • Venue:
  • SFCS '93 Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE 34th Annual Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

This paper concerns the problem of computing the densest k-vertex subgraph of a given graph, namely, the subgraph with the most edges, or with the highest edges-to-vertices ratio. A sequence of approximation algorithms is developed for the problem, with each step yielding a better ratio at the cost of a more complicated solution. The approximation ratio of our final algorithm is O/spl tilde/(n/sup 0.3885/). We also present a method for converting an approximation algorithm for an unweighted graph problem (from a specific class of maximization problems) into one for the corresponding weighted problem, and apply it to the densest subgraph problem.