Complexity of graph covering problems

  • Authors:
  • Jan Kratochvíl;Andrzej Proskurowski;Jan Arne Telle

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mathematics, Charles University, Malostransk nm. 25, 118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic;Computer Science Department, University of Oregon, 256 Deschutes Hall, 1477 East 13th Ave., Eugene, Oregon;Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway

  • Venue:
  • Nordic Journal of Computing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

For a fixed graph H, the H-cover problem asks whether an input graph G allows a degree preserving mapping f : V(G) → V(H) such that for every υ ∈ V(G), f(NG(υ)) = NH(f(υ)). In this paper we design efficient algorithms for certain graph covering problems according to two basic techniques. The first is based in part on a reduction to the 2-SAT problem. The second technique exploits necessary and sufficient conditions for the partition of a graph into 1-factors and 2-factors. For other infinite classes of graph covering problems we derive NP- completeness results by reductions from graph coloring problems. We illustrate this methodology by classifying the complexity of all H-cover problems defined by simple graphs H with at most 6 vertices.