Polynomial kernels for Proper Interval Completion and related problems

  • Authors:
  • Stéphane Bessy;Anthony Perez

  • Affiliations:
  • LIRMM, CNRS - Université Montpellier II, France;LIFO - Université dOrléans, France

  • Venue:
  • Information and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Given a graph G=(V,E) and a positive integer k, the Proper Interval Completion problem asks whether there exists a set F of at most k pairs of (VxV)@?E such that the graph H=(V,E@?F) is a proper interval graph. The Proper Interval Completion problem finds applications in molecular biology and genomic research. This problem is known to be FPT (Kaplan, Tarjan and Shamir, FOCS@?94), but no polynomial kernel was known to exist. We settle this question by proving that Proper Interval Completion admits a kernel with O(k^3) vertices. Moreover, we prove that a related problem, the so-called Bipartite Chain Deletion problem, admits a kernel with O(k^2) vertices, completing a previous result of Guo (ISAAC@?07).