Decomposable trees: a polynomial algorithm for tripodes

  • Authors:
  • D. Barth;O. Baudon;J. Puech

  • Affiliations:
  • PRiSM, Université de Versailles-St Quentin en Yv., Batiment Descartes, 45 Bld des Etats Unis, 91405 Versailles Cedex, F-78000 Versailles, France;LaBRI - UMR 5800, Université Bordeaux I, 350 Cours de la Libération, F-33405 Talence, France;Département de Mathématique, Bât. 425, Centre d'Orsay, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this article, we deal with graphs modelling interconnection networks of parallel systems (parallel computers, networks of workstations, etc.). We want to share the nodes of such a network between many users, each one needing a given number of nodes. Thus, a graph G with N vertices is said to be decomposable if for each set {n1,..., nk} whose sum is equal to N, there exists a partition V1,...,Vk of V(G) such that for each i, 1 ≤i≤k, |Vi| = ni and the subgraph induced by Vi is connected. We show that determining whether a given tripode (three disjoint chains connected by one extremity to a same new vertex) is decomposable can be done by a polynomial algorithm.