Parameterized Graph Cleaning Problems

  • Authors:
  • Dániel Marx;Ildikó Schlotter

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary H-1521;Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary H-1521

  • Venue:
  • Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We investigate the Induced Subgraph Isomorphism problem with non-standard parametrization, where the parameter is the difference |V (G )| *** |V (H )| with H and G being the smaller and the larger input graph, respectively. Intuitively, we can interpret this problem as "cleaning" the graph G , regarded as a pattern containing extra vertices indicating errors, in order to obtain the graph H representing the original pattern. We show fixed-parameter tractability of the cases where both H and G are planar and H is 3-connected, or H is a tree and G is arbitrary.