1. Finding a potential community in networks
- Author
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Zsolt Tuza, Cristina Bazgan, Thomas Pontoizeau, Laboratoire d'analyse et modélisation de systèmes pour l'aide à la décision (LAMSADE), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Computer Science and Systems Technology [Veszprem], and University of Panninia
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General Computer Science ,Independent set ,0102 computer and information sciences ,02 engineering and technology ,01 natural sciences ,Graph ,Theoretical Computer Science ,law.invention ,Combinatorics ,symbols.namesake ,law ,Line graph ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,[INFO]Computer Science [cs] ,Mathematics ,Complexity ,Planar graph ,Treewidth ,Algorithm ,010201 computation theory & mathematics ,Bounded function ,Common neighbor ,symbols ,Bipartite graph ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Inapproximability - Abstract
An independent 2-clique of a graph is a subset of vertices that is an independent set and such that any two vertices inside have a common neighbor outside. In this paper, we study the complexity of finding an independent 2-clique of maximum size in several graph classes and we compare it with the complexity of maximum independent set. We prove that this problem is NP-hard on apex graphs, APX-hard on line graphs, not n 1 / 2 − ϵ -approximable on bipartite graphs and not n 1 − ϵ -approximable on split graphs, while it is polynomial-time solvable on graphs of bounded degree and their complements, graphs of bounded treewidth, planar graphs, ( C 3 , C 6 ) -free graphs, threshold graphs, interval graphs and cographs.
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- 2019