Spanning trees with many leaves
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
Quickly excluding a planar graph
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
Fixed-parameter tractability of graph modification problems for hereditary properties
Information Processing Letters
Computer Solution of Large Sparse Positive Definite
Computer Solution of Large Sparse Positive Definite
On problems without polynomial kernels
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Chordal Deletion is Fixed-Parameter Tractable
Algorithmica
An (almost) linear time algorithm for odd cycles transversal
SODA '10 Proceedings of the twenty-first annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete Algorithms
A quartic kernel for pathwidth-one vertex deletion
WG'10 Proceedings of the 36th international conference on Graph-theoretic concepts in computer science
Measuring indifference: unit interval vertex deletion
WG'10 Proceedings of the 36th international conference on Graph-theoretic concepts in computer science
Parameterized complexity of vertex deletion into perfect graph classes
FCT'11 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Fundamentals of computation theory
Obtaining a Planar Graph by Vertex Deletion
Algorithmica
Parameterized Complexity
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Vertex elimination is a graph operation that turns the neighborhood of a vertex into a clique and removes the vertex itself. It has widely known applications within sparse matrix computations. We define the Elimination problem as follows: given two graphs G and H, decide whether H can be obtained from G by |V(G)|−|V(H)| vertex eliminations. We study the parameterized complexity of the Elimination problem. We show that Elimination is W[1]-hard when parameterized by |V(H)|, even if both input graphs are split graphs, and W[2]-hard when parameterized by |V(G)|−|V(H)|, even if H is a complete graph. On the positive side, we show that Elimination admits a kernel with at most 5|V(H)| vertices in the case when G is connected and H is a complete graph, which is in sharp contrast to the W[1]-hardness of the related Clique problem. We also study the case when either G or H is tree. The computational complexity of the problem depends on which graph is assumed to be a tree: we show that Elimination can be solved in polynomial time when H is a tree, whereas it remains NP-complete when G is a tree.