Brause, C. and Golovach, P.A. and Martin, B. and Paulusma, D. and Smith, S. (2021) 'Partitioning H-free graphs of bounded diameter.', ISAAC 2021 Fukuoka / Online, 6-8 Dec 2021.
Abstract
A natural way of increasing our understanding of NP-complete graph problems is to restrict the input to a special graph class. Classes of H-free graphs, that is, graphs that do not contain some graph H as an induced subgraph, have proven to be an ideal testbed for such a complexity study. However, if the forbidden graph H contains a cycle or claw, then these problems often stay NP-complete. A recent complexity study (MFCS 2019) on the k-Colouring problem shows that we may still obtain tractable results if we also bound the diameter of the H-free input graph. We continue this line of research by initiating a complexity study on the impact of bounding the diameter for a variety of classical vertex partitioning problems restricted to H-free graphs. We prove that bounding the diameter does not help for Independent Set, but leads to new tractable cases for problems closely related to 3-Colouring. That is, we show that Near-Bipartiteness, Independent Feedback Vertex Set, Independent Odd Cycle Transversal, Acyclic 3-Colouring and Star 3- Colouring are all polynomial-time solvable for chair-free graphs of bounded diameter. To obtain these results we exploit a new structural property of 3-colourable chair-free graphs.
Item Type: | Conference item (Paper) |
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Full text: | Publisher-imposed embargo (AM) Accepted Manuscript Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. File format - PDF (578Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/institut_lipics.php |
Date accepted: | 06 September 2021 |
Date deposited: | 25 October 2021 |
Date of first online publication: | 2021 |
Date first made open access: | No date available |
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