On the maximum quasi-clique problem

  • Authors:
  • Jeffrey Pattillo;Alexander Veremyev;Sergiy Butenko;Vladimir Boginski

  • Affiliations:
  • Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics, College Station, TX 77843, United States;University of Florida, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 303 Weil Hall, P.O. Box 116595 Gainesville, FL 32611-6595, United States;Texas A&M University, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, College Station, TX 77843-3131, United States;University of Florida, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 303 Weil Hall, P.O. Box 116595 Gainesville, FL 32611-6595, United States

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Given a simple undirected graph G=(V,E) and a constant @c@?(0,1), a subset of vertices is called a @c-quasi-clique or, simply, a @c-clique if it induces a subgraph with the edge density of at least @c. The maximum @c-clique problem consists in finding a @c-clique of largest cardinality in the graph. Despite numerous practical applications, this problem has not been rigorously studied from the mathematical perspective, and no exact solution methods have been proposed in the literature. This paper, for the first time, establishes some fundamental properties of the maximum @c-clique problem, including the NP-completeness of its decision version for any fixed @c satisfying 0