Dense and sparse graph partition

  • Authors:
  • Julien Darlay;Nadia Brauner;Julien Moncel

  • Affiliations:
  • Bouygues e-lab, 32 avenue Hoche 75008 Paris, France and Grenoble-INP / UJF-Grenoble 1 / CNRS, G-SCOP UMR5272, F-38031 Grenoble, France;Grenoble-INP / UJF-Grenoble 1 / CNRS, G-SCOP UMR5272, F-38031 Grenoble, France;Fédération de recherche "maths í modeler", France and CNRS, LAAS, 7 avenue du colonel Roche, F-31077 Toulouse Cedex 4, France and Université de Toulouse, UPS, INSA, INP, ISAE, ...

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

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Abstract

In a graph G=(V,E), the density is the ratio between the number of edges |E| and the number of vertices |V|. This criterion may be used to find communities in a graph: groups of highly connected vertices. We propose an optimization problem based on this criterion; the idea is to find the vertex partition that maximizes the sum of the densities of each class. We prove that this problem is NP-hard by giving a reduction from graph-k-colorability. Additionally, we give a polynomial time algorithm for the special case of trees.