Subgraph Isomorphism, log-Bounded Fragmentation and Graphs of (Locally) Bounded Treewidth

  • Authors:
  • Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi;Naomi Nishimura

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • MFCS '02 Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The subgraph isomorphism problem, that of finding a copy of one graph in another, has proved to be intractable except when certain restrictions are placed on the inputs. In this paper, we introduce a new property for graphs (a generalization on bounded degree) and extend the known classes of inputs for which polynomial-time subgraph isomorphism algorithms are attainable. In particular, if the removal of any set of at most k vertices from an n-vertex graph results in O(k log n) connected components, we say that the graph is a log-bounded fragmentation graph. We present a polynomial-time algorithm for finding a subgraph of H isomorphic to a graph G when G is a log-bounded fragmentation graph and H has bounded treewidth; these results are extended to handle graphs of locally bounded treewidth (a generalization of treewidth) when G is a log-bounded fragmentation graph and has constant diameter.