Detecting induced star-like minors in polynomial time

  • Authors:
  • Jiří Fiala;Marcin KamińSki;DaniëL Paulusma

  • Affiliations:
  • Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, DIMATIA and Institute for Theoretical Computer Science (ITI), Malostranské nám. 2/25, 118 00, Prague, Czech Republic;Département dInformatique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium;School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Durham University, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Discrete Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The Induced Minor problem is to test whether a graph G contains a graph H as an induced minor, i.e., if G can be modified into H by a sequence of vertex deletions and edge contractions. When H is fixed, i.e., not part of the input, this problem is denoted H-Induced Minor. We provide polynomial-time algorithms for this problem in the case that the fixed target graph has a star-like structure. In particular, we show polynomial-time solvability for all forests H on at most seven vertices except for one such case.