Tractability of parameterized completion problems on chordal and interval graphs: minimum fill-in and physical mapping

  • Authors:
  • H. Kaplan;R. Shamir;R. E. Tarjan

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Comput. Sci., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SFCS '94 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

We study the parameterized complexity of several NP-Hard graph completion problems: The minimum fill-in problem is to decide if a graph can be triangulated by adding at most k edges. We develop an O(k/sup 5/ mn+f(K)) algorithm for the problem on a graph with n vertices and m edges. In particular, this implies that the problem is fixed parameter tractable (FPT). proper interval graph completion problems, motivated by molecular biology, ask for adding edges in order to obtain a proper interval graph, so that a parameter in that graph does not exceed k. We show that the problem is FPT when k is the number of added edges. For the problem where k is the clique size, we give an O(f(k)n/sup k-1/) algorithm, so it is polynomial for fixed k. On the other hand, we prove its hardness in the parameterized hierarchy, so it is probably not FPT. Those results are obtained even when a set of edges which should not be added is given. That set can be given either explicitly or by a proper vertex coloring which the added edges should respect.