On the approximability of some degree-constrained subgraph problems

  • Authors:
  • Omid Amini;David Peleg;Stéphane Pérennes;Ignasi Sau;Saket Saurabh

  • Affiliations:
  • CNRS, Département de mathématiques et applications (DMA), ícole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France;Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel;Mascotte project INRIA/CNRS/UNS, Sophia-Antipolis, France;CNRS, Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), Montpellier, France;The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this article we provide hardness results and approximation algorithms for the following three natural degree-constrained subgraph problems, which take as input an undirected graph G=(V,E). Let d=2 be a fixed integer. The Maximumd-degree-bounded Connected Subgraph (MDBCS"d) problem takes as additional input a weight function @w:E-R^+, and asks for a subset E^'@?E such that the subgraph induced by E^' is connected, has maximum degree at most d, and @?"e"@?"E"^"'@w(e) is maximized. The Minimum Subgraph of Minimum Degree=d (MSMD"d) problem involves finding a smallest subgraph of G with minimum degree at least d. Finally, the Dual Degree-densek-Subgraph (DDDkS) problem consists in finding a subgraph H of G such that |V(H)|@?k and the minimum degree in H is maximized.