Inverse Hamiltonian Cycle and inverse 3Dimensional Matching are coNP-complete

  • Authors:
  • Harald Hempel;Michael Krüger

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2012

Quantified Score

Hi-index 5.23

Visualization

Abstract

In this paper, we show that the inverse problems of Hamiltonian Cycle and 3Dimensional Matching are coNP-complete. This completes the study of inverse problems of the six natural NP-complete problems from Garey and Johnson (1979) [2] and answers an open question from Chen (2003) [1]. We show that the coNP-completeness of the inverse problem of Hamiltonian Cycle holds for undirected as well as for directed graphs.