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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2016.3
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-66260
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2016/6626/
Bliznets, Ivan ;
Cygan, Marek ;
Komosa, Pawel ;
Pilipczuk, Michal
Hardness of Approximation for H-Free Edge Modification Problems
Abstract
The H-free Edge Deletion problem asks, for a given graph G and integer k, whether it is possible to delete at most k edges from G to make it H-free, that is, not containing H as an induced subgraph. The H-free Edge Completion problem is defined similarly, but we add edges instead of deleting them. The study of these two problem families has recently been the subject of intensive studies from the point of view of parameterized complexity and kernelization. In particular, it was shown that the problems do not admit polynomial kernels (under plausible complexity assumptions) for almost all graphs H, with several important exceptions occurring when the class of H-free graphs exhibits some structural properties.
In this work we complement the parameterized study of edge modification problems to H-free graphs by considering their approximability. We prove that whenever H is 3-connected and has at least two non-edges, then both H-free Edge Deletion and H-free Edge Completion are very hard to approximate: they do not admit poly(OPT)-approximation in polynomial time, unless P=NP, or even in time subexponential in OPT, unless the Exponential Time Hypothesis fails. The assumption of the existence of two non-edges appears to be important: we show that whenever H is a complete graph without one edge, then H-free Edge Deletion is tightly connected to the \minhorn problem, whose approximability is still open. Finally, in an attempt to extend our hardness results beyond 3-connected graphs, we consider the cases of H being a path or a cycle, and we achieve an almost complete dichotomy there.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{bliznets_et_al:LIPIcs:2016:6626,
author = {Ivan Bliznets and Marek Cygan and Pawel Komosa and Michal Pilipczuk},
title = {{Hardness of Approximation for H-Free Edge Modification Problems}},
booktitle = {Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2016)},
pages = {3:1--3:17},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-018-7},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2016},
volume = {60},
editor = {Klaus Jansen and Claire Mathieu and Jos{\'e} D. P. Rolim and Chris Umans},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2016/6626},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-66260},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2016.3},
annote = {Keywords: hardness of approximation, parameterized complexity, kernelization, edge modification problems}
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hardness of approximation, parameterized complexity, kernelization, edge modification problems |
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Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2016) |
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2016 |
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06.09.2016 |
