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Parameterizing edge modification problems above lower bounds

René van Bevern·Vincent Froese·Christian Komusiewicz
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We study the parameterized complexity of a variant of the $F$-free Editing problem: Given a graph $G$ and a natural number $k$, is it possible to modify at most $k$ edges in $G$ so that the resulting graph contains no induced subgraph isomorphic to $F$? In our variant, the input additionally contains a vertex-disjoint packing $\mathcal{H}$ of induced subgraphs of $G$, which provides a lower bound $h(\mathcal{H})$ on the number of edge modifications required to transform $G$ into an $F$-free graph. While earlier works used the number $k$ as parameter or structural parameters of the input graph $G$, we consider instead the parameter $\ell:=k-h(\mathcal{H})$, that is, the number of edge modifications above the lower bound $h(\mathcal{H})$. We develop a framework of generic data reduction rules to show fixed-parameter tractability with respect to $\ell$ for $K_3$-Free Editing, Feedback Arc Set in Tournaments, and Cluster Editing when the packing $\mathcal{H}$ contains subgraphs with bounded solution size. For $K_3$-Free Editing, we also prove NP-hardness in case of edge-disjoint packings of $K_3$s and $\ell=0$, while for $K_q$-Free Editing and $q\ge 6$, NP-hardness for $\ell=0$ even holds for vertex-disjoint packings of $K_q$s. In addition, we provide NP-hardness results for $F$-free Vertex Deletion, were the aim is to delete a minimum number of vertices to make the input graph $F$-free.

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René van Bevern, Vincent Froese, Christian Komusiewicz. 2015-12-13. Parameterizing edge modification problems above lower bounds. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00224-016-9746-5

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