Chordal deletion is fixed-parameter tractable

  • Authors:
  • Dániel Marx

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • WG'06 Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

It is known to be NP-hard to decide whether a graph can be made chordal by the deletion of k vertices. Here we present a uniformly polynomial-time algorithm for the problem: the running time is f(k)nα for some constant α not depending on k and some f depending only on k. For large values of n, such an algorithm is much better than trying all the O(nk) possibilities. Therefore, the chordal deletion problem parameterized by the number k of vertices to be deleted is fixed-parameter tractable. This answers an open question of Cai [2].