Problem kernels for NP-complete edge deletion problems: split and related graphs

  • Authors:
  • Jiong Guo

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC'07 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Algorithms and computation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In an edge deletion problem one is asked to delete at most k edges from a given graph such that the resulting graph satisfies a certain property. In this work, we study four NP-complete edge deletion problems where the goal graph has to be a chain, a split, a threshold, or a co-trivially perfect graph, respectively. All these four graph classes are characterized by a common forbidden induced subgraph 2K2, that is, an independent pair of edges. We present the seemingly first non-trivial algorithmic results for these four problems, namely, four polynomial-time data reduction algorithms that achieve problem kernels containing O(k2), O(k4), O(k3), and O(k3) vertices, respectively.