Finding Large Independent Sets in Polynomial Expected Time

  • Authors:
  • Amin Coja-Oghlan

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • STACS '03 Proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We consider instances of the maximum independent set problem that are constructed according to the following semirandom model. First, let Gn,p be a random graph, and let S be a set consisting of k vertices, chosen uniformly at random. Then, let G0 be the graph obtained by deleting all edges connecting two vertices in S. Adding to G0 further edges that do not connect two vertices in S, an adversary completes the instance G = G*n,p,k. We propose an algorithm that in the case k 驴 C(n/p)1/2 on input G within polynomial expected time finds an independent set of size 驴 k.