Parameterized Graph Editing with Chosen Vertex Degrees

  • Authors:
  • Luke Mathieson;Stefan Szeider

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Durham, UK;Department of Computer Science, University of Durham, UK

  • Venue:
  • COCOA 2008 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We study the parameterized complexity of the following problem: is it possible to make a given graph r-regular by applying at most kelementary editing operations; the operations are vertex deletion, edge deletion, and edge addition. We also consider more general annotated variants of this problem, where vertices and edges are assigned an integer cost and each vertex vhas assigned its own desired degree 驴(v) 驴 {0,...,r}. We show that both problems are fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by (k,r), but W[1]-hard when parameterized by kalone. These results extend our earlier results on problems that are defined similarly but where edge addition is not available. We also show that if edge addition and/or deletion are the only available operations, then the problems are solvable in polynomial time. This completes the classification for all combinations of the three considered editing operations.