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2K2 vertex-set partition into nonempty parts

Authors :
Elaine M. Eschen
Luerbio Faria
Simone Dantas
Sulamita Klein
Kathryn Cook
Celina M. H. de Figueiredo
Source :
Discrete Mathematics. 310:1259-1264
Publication Year :
2010
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2010.

Abstract

A graph is 2K"2-partitionable if its vertex set can be partitioned into four nonempty parts A, B, C, D such that each vertex of A is adjacent to each vertex of B, and each vertex of C is adjacent to each vertex of D. Determining whether an arbitrary graph is 2K"2-partitionable is the only vertex-set partition problem into four nonempty parts according to external constraints whose computational complexity is open. We establish that the 2K"2-partition problem parameterized by minimum degree is fixed-parameter tractable. We also show that for C"4-free graphs, circular-arc graphs, spiders, P"4-sparse graphs, and bipartite graphs the 2K"2-partition problem can be solved in polynomial time.

Details

ISSN :
0012365X
Volume :
310
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Discrete Mathematics
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........928088f8a2e0078c6e291f686e191784
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2009.11.030