Identification to Subclasses of Chordal Graphs

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Hauptverfasser: Golovach, Petr A., Morelle, Laure, Paulusma, Daniël
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author Golovach, Petr A.
Morelle, Laure
Paulusma, Daniël
author_facet Golovach, Petr A.
Morelle, Laure
Paulusma, Daniël
contents An identification of two vertices $u$ and $v$ in a graph replaces them with a new vertex whose neighborhood is the union of the neighborhoods of $u$ and $v$. We study the {\sc ${\cal H}$-Identification} problem, which is to decide whether a given graph $G$ can be transformed (``identified'') to a graph in ${\cal H}$ by applying at most $k$ vertex identifications. We determine the classical and parameterized complexity of this problem for various subclasses ${\cal H}$ of chordal graphs, obtaining an almost complete picture for two parameters: $k$ and $n-k$. We also consider the {\sc Identification} problem, which is to test for two given graphs $G$ and $H$ if $G$ can be identified to $H$. We determine the parameterized complexity of this problem when $H$ is a graph from one of our testbed classes, taking the number of simplicial vertices of $H$ as the parameter.
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spellingShingle Identification to Subclasses of Chordal Graphs
Golovach, Petr A.
Morelle, Laure
Paulusma, Daniël
Data Structures and Algorithms
Computational Complexity
Combinatorics
05C85, 68R10, 05C75
F.2.2; G.2.2
An identification of two vertices $u$ and $v$ in a graph replaces them with a new vertex whose neighborhood is the union of the neighborhoods of $u$ and $v$. We study the {\sc ${\cal H}$-Identification} problem, which is to decide whether a given graph $G$ can be transformed (``identified'') to a graph in ${\cal H}$ by applying at most $k$ vertex identifications. We determine the classical and parameterized complexity of this problem for various subclasses ${\cal H}$ of chordal graphs, obtaining an almost complete picture for two parameters: $k$ and $n-k$. We also consider the {\sc Identification} problem, which is to test for two given graphs $G$ and $H$ if $G$ can be identified to $H$. We determine the parameterized complexity of this problem when $H$ is a graph from one of our testbed classes, taking the number of simplicial vertices of $H$ as the parameter.
title Identification to Subclasses of Chordal Graphs
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
Computational Complexity
Combinatorics
05C85, 68R10, 05C75
F.2.2; G.2.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24325