The Complexity of Approximating the Oriented Diameter of Chordal Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Fedor V. Fomin;Martín Matamala;Ivan Rapaport

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WG '02 Revised Papers from the 28th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The oriented diameter of a (undirected) graph G is the smallest diameter among all the diameters of strongly connected orientations of G. We study algorithmic aspects of determining the oriented diameter of a chordal graph. We - give a linear time algorithm such that, for a given chordal graph G, either concludes that there is no strongly connected orientation of G, or finds a strongly connected orientation of G with diameter at most twice the diameter of G plus one; - prove that the corresponding decision problem remains NP-complete even when restricted to a small subclass of chordal graphs called split graphs; - show that unless P = NP, there is neither a polynomial-time absolute approximation algorithm nor an a-approximation (for every 驴