Chordal Editing is Fixed-Parameter Tractable

Graph modification problems typically ask for a small set of operations that transforms a given graph to have a certain property. The most commonly considered operations include vertex deletion, edge deletion, and edge addition; for the same property, one can define significantly different versions...

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Veröffentlicht in:Algorithmica Jg. 75; H. 1; S. 118 - 137
Hauptverfasser: Cao, Yixin, Marx, Dániel
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Springer US 01.05.2016
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ISSN:0178-4617, 1432-0541
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Zusammenfassung:Graph modification problems typically ask for a small set of operations that transforms a given graph to have a certain property. The most commonly considered operations include vertex deletion, edge deletion, and edge addition; for the same property, one can define significantly different versions by allowing different operations. We study a very general graph modification problem that allows all three types of operations: given a graph and integers , and , the chordal editing problem asks whether can be transformed into a chordal graph by at most vertex deletions, edge deletions, and edge additions. Clearly, this problem generalizes both chordal deletion and chordal completion (also known as minimum fill - in ). Our main result is an algorithm for chordal editing in time , where and is the number of vertices of . Therefore, the problem is fixed-parameter tractable parameterized by the total number of allowed operations. Our algorithm is both more efficient and conceptually simpler than the previously known algorithm for the special case chordal deletion .
ISSN:0178-4617
1432-0541
DOI:10.1007/s00453-015-0014-x