Isomorphic Subgraphs

  • Authors:
  • Sabine Bachl

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • GD '99 Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Graph Drawing
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We are interested in finding symmetries in graphs and then use these symmetries for graph drawing algorithms. There are two general approaches to this problem, the first one is known as GEOMETRIC SYMMETRICS on the basis of drawings, the other rests upon the graph-theoretical notion of graphs. For a given graph G the ISOMORPHIC SUBGRAPHS problem makes use of the second approach and tries to find the two largest disjoint isomorphic subgraphs in G. Hence, G consists of two identical copies and a remainder. There are many NP-complete or open problems related to our problem, like GRAPH ISOMERPHISM, GRAPH AUTOMORPHISM or Largest LARGEST COMMON SUBGRAPH. We show that the ISOMORPHIC SUBGRAPHS problem is NP-hard for connected outerplanar graphs, and 2-connected planar graphs and is solvable in linear time when restricted to trees. Additionally we will shortly discuss the applicability of ISOMORPHIC SUBGRAPHS in graph drawing algorithms.