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Diskretnyi Analiz i Issledovanie Operatsii, 2023, Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 28–39 DOI: https://doi.org/10.33048/daio.2023.30.742
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This article is cited in 1 scientific paper (total in 1 paper)
On a countable family of boundary graph classes for the dominating set problem
G. S. Dakhnoa, D. S. Malyshevba a National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, 25/12 Bolshaya Pechyorskaya Street, 603155 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
b Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod University, 23 Gagarin Avenue, 603950 Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33048/daio.2023.30.742
Abstract:
The hereditary class is a set of simple graphs closed under deletion of vertices; every such class is defined by the set of its minimal forbidden induced subgraphs. If this set is finite, then it is called finitely defined. The concept of a boundary class is a useful tool for analysis of the computational complexity of graph problems in the finitely defined classes family. The dominating set problem for a given graph is to determine whether it has a given-size subset of vertices such that every vertex outside the subset has at least one neighbor in the subset. Previously, exactly 4 boundary classes were known for this problem (if $\mathbb{P}\neq \mathbb{NP}$). This work considers some countable set of concrete classes of graphs and proves that each its element is a boundary class for the dominating set problem (if $\mathbb{P}\neq \mathbb{NP}$). We also prove $\mathbb{NP}$-completeness of this problem for graphs that contain neither induced 6-path nor induced 4-clique, which means that the set of known boundary classes for the dominating set problem is not complete (if $\mathbb{P}\neq \mathbb{NP}$). Bibliogr. 11.
Keywords:
hereditary graph class, computational complexity, dominating set.
Received: 29.05.2022 Revised: 23.10.2022 Accepted: 24.10.2022
Citation:
G. S. Dakhno, D. S. Malyshev, “On a countable family of boundary graph classes for the dominating set problem”, Diskretn. Anal. Issled. Oper., 30:1 (2023), 28–39; J. Appl. Industr. Math., 17:1 (2023), 25–31
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