Complexity aspects of generalized Helly hypergraphs

  • Authors:
  • Mitre C. Dourado;Fábio Protti;Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

  • Affiliations:
  • COPPE - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;Instituto de Matemática and NCE, Brazil;Instituto de Matemática, NCE and COPPE, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In [V.I. Voloshin, On the upper chromatic number of a hypergraph, Australas. J. Combin. 11 (1995) 25-45], Voloshin proposed the following generalization of the Helly property. Let p ≥ 1, q ≥ 0 and s ≥ 0. A hypergraph H is (p, q)-intersecting when every partial hypergraph H' ⊆ H formed by p or less hyperedges has intersection of cardinality at least q. A hypergraph H is (p,q,s)- Helly when every partial (p,q)-intersecting hypergraph H' ⊆ H has intersection of cardinality at least s. In this work, we study the complexity of determining whether H is (p,q,s)-Helly.