On complexity of substructure connectivity and restricted connectivity of graphs

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Hauptverfasser: Lü, Huazhong, Wu, Tingzeng
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author Lü, Huazhong
Wu, Tingzeng
author_facet Lü, Huazhong
Wu, Tingzeng
contents The connectivity of a graph is an important parameter to evaluate its reliability. $k$-restricted connectivity (resp. $R^h$-restricted connectivity) of a graph $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a set $S$ of vertices in $G$, if exists, whose deletion disconnects $G$ and leaves each component of $G-S$ with more than $k$ vertices (resp. $δ(G-S)\geq h$). In contrast, structure (substructure) connectivity of $G$ is defined as the minimum number of vertex-disjoint subgraphs whose deletion disconnects $G$. As generalizations of the concept of connectivity, structure (substructure) connectivity, restricted connectivity and $R^h$-restricted connectivity have been extensively studied from the combinatorial point of view. Very little is known about the computational complexity of these variants, except for the recently established NP-completeness of $k$-restricted edge-connectivity. In this paper, we prove that the problems of determining structure, substructure, restricted, and $R^h$-restricted connectivity are all NP-complete.
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spellingShingle On complexity of substructure connectivity and restricted connectivity of graphs
Lü, Huazhong
Wu, Tingzeng
Computational Complexity
Combinatorics
03D15, 05C40, 68R10
The connectivity of a graph is an important parameter to evaluate its reliability. $k$-restricted connectivity (resp. $R^h$-restricted connectivity) of a graph $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a set $S$ of vertices in $G$, if exists, whose deletion disconnects $G$ and leaves each component of $G-S$ with more than $k$ vertices (resp. $δ(G-S)\geq h$). In contrast, structure (substructure) connectivity of $G$ is defined as the minimum number of vertex-disjoint subgraphs whose deletion disconnects $G$. As generalizations of the concept of connectivity, structure (substructure) connectivity, restricted connectivity and $R^h$-restricted connectivity have been extensively studied from the combinatorial point of view. Very little is known about the computational complexity of these variants, except for the recently established NP-completeness of $k$-restricted edge-connectivity. In this paper, we prove that the problems of determining structure, substructure, restricted, and $R^h$-restricted connectivity are all NP-complete.
title On complexity of substructure connectivity and restricted connectivity of graphs
topic Computational Complexity
Combinatorics
03D15, 05C40, 68R10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05917