Maximum weight independent sets in hole- and dart-free graphs

  • Authors:
  • M. Basavaraju;L. S. Chandran;T. Karthick

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, India;Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, India;Indian Statistical Institute Chennai Centre, Chennai - 600 113, India

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

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Abstract

The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) problem on graphs with vertex weights asks for a set of pairwise nonadjacent vertices of maximum total weight. The complexity of the MWIS problem for hole-free graphs is unknown. In this paper, we first prove that the MWIS problem for (hole, dart, gem)-free graphs can be solved in O(n^3)-time. By using this result, we prove that the MWIS problem for (hole, dart)-free graphs can be solved in O(n^4)-time. Though the MWIS problem for (hole, dart, gem)-free graphs is used as a subroutine, we also give the best known time bound for the solvability of the MWIS problem in (hole, dart, gem)-free graphs.