The Maximum Clique Problem in a Disk Graph Made Easy

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Main Authors: Keil, J. Mark, Mondal, Debajyoti
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author Keil, J. Mark
Mondal, Debajyoti
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Mondal, Debajyoti
contents A disk graph is an intersection graph of disks in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Determining the computational complexity of finding a maximum clique in a disk graph is a long-standing open problem. In 1990, Clark, Colbourn, and Johnson gave a polynomial-time algorithm for computing a maximum clique in a unit disk graph. However, finding a maximum clique when disks are of arbitrary size is widely believed to be a challenging open problem. The problem is open even if we restrict the disks to have at most two different sizes of radii, or restrict the radii to be within $[1,1+\varepsilon]$ for some $ε>0$. In this paper, we provide a new perspective to examine adjacencies in a disk graph that helps obtain the following results. - We design an $O(2^k n^{2k} poly(n))$-time algorithm to find a maximum clique in a $n$-vertex disk graph with $k$ different sizes of radii. This is polynomial for every fixed $k$, and thus settles the open question for the case when $k=2$. - Given a set of $n$ unit disks, we show how to compute a maximum clique inside each possible axis-aligned rectangle determined by the disk centers in $O(n^5\log n)$-time. This is at least a factor of $n^{4/3}$ faster than applying the fastest known algorithm for finding a maximum clique in a unit disk graph for each rectangle independently. - We give an $O(2^kn^{2rk} poly(n,r))$-time algorithm to find a maximum clique in a $n$-vertex ball graph with $k$ different sizes of radii where the ball centers lie on $r$ parallel planes. This is polynomial for every fixed $k$ and $r$, and thus contrasts the previously known NP-hardness result for finding a maximum clique in an arbitrary ball graph.
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spellingShingle The Maximum Clique Problem in a Disk Graph Made Easy
Keil, J. Mark
Mondal, Debajyoti
Computational Geometry
Data Structures and Algorithms
52C99, 68Q25
F.2.2; I.3.5
A disk graph is an intersection graph of disks in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Determining the computational complexity of finding a maximum clique in a disk graph is a long-standing open problem. In 1990, Clark, Colbourn, and Johnson gave a polynomial-time algorithm for computing a maximum clique in a unit disk graph. However, finding a maximum clique when disks are of arbitrary size is widely believed to be a challenging open problem. The problem is open even if we restrict the disks to have at most two different sizes of radii, or restrict the radii to be within $[1,1+\varepsilon]$ for some $ε>0$. In this paper, we provide a new perspective to examine adjacencies in a disk graph that helps obtain the following results. - We design an $O(2^k n^{2k} poly(n))$-time algorithm to find a maximum clique in a $n$-vertex disk graph with $k$ different sizes of radii. This is polynomial for every fixed $k$, and thus settles the open question for the case when $k=2$. - Given a set of $n$ unit disks, we show how to compute a maximum clique inside each possible axis-aligned rectangle determined by the disk centers in $O(n^5\log n)$-time. This is at least a factor of $n^{4/3}$ faster than applying the fastest known algorithm for finding a maximum clique in a unit disk graph for each rectangle independently. - We give an $O(2^kn^{2rk} poly(n,r))$-time algorithm to find a maximum clique in a $n$-vertex ball graph with $k$ different sizes of radii where the ball centers lie on $r$ parallel planes. This is polynomial for every fixed $k$ and $r$, and thus contrasts the previously known NP-hardness result for finding a maximum clique in an arbitrary ball graph.
title The Maximum Clique Problem in a Disk Graph Made Easy
topic Computational Geometry
Data Structures and Algorithms
52C99, 68Q25
F.2.2; I.3.5
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03751