A note on the consecutive ones submatrix problem

  • Authors:
  • Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi;Yashar Ganjali

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3GI;Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3GI

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A binary matrix has the Consecutive Ones Property (C1P) for columns if there exists a permutation of its rows that leaves the 1's consecutive in every column. The problem of Consecutive Ones Property for a matrix is a special variant of Consecutive Ones Submatrix problem in which a positive integer K is given and we want to know if there exists a submatrix B of A consisting of K columns of A with C1P property. This paper presents an error in the proof of NP-completeness for this problem in the reference cited in text by Garey and Johnson [Computers and Intractability, A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness, 1979].