An exact algorithm for the minimum dominating clique problem

  • Authors:
  • Dieter Kratsch;Mathieu Liedloff

  • Affiliations:
  • LITA, Université Paul Verlaine – Metz, Metz, France;LITA, Université Paul Verlaine – Metz, Metz, France

  • Venue:
  • IWPEC'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Parameterized and Exact Computation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A subset of vertices D⊆V of a graph G = (V,E) is a dominating clique if D is a dominating set and a clique of G. The existence problem ‘Given a graph G, is there a dominating clique in G?' is NP-complete, and thus both the Minimum and the Maximum Dominating Clique problem are NP-hard. We present an O(1.3390n) time algorithm that for an input graph on n vertices either computes a minimum dominating clique or reports that the graph has no dominating clique. The algorithm uses the Branch & Reduce paradigm and its time analysis is based on the Measure & Conquer approach. We also establish a lower bound of Ω(1.2599n) for the worst case running time of our algorithm.