Computational Complexity of Covering Colored Mixed Multigraphs with Degree Partition Equivalence Classes of Size at Most Two (Extended Abstract)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43380-1_8" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43380-1_8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43380-1_8" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-43380-1_8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Computational Complexity of Covering Colored Mixed Multigraphs with Degree Partition Equivalence Classes of Size at Most Two (Extended Abstract)

Original language description

The notion of graph covers (also referred to as locally bijective homomorphisms) plays an important role in topological graph theory and has found its computer science applications in models of local computation. For a fixed target graph H, the H-Cover problem asks if an input graph G allows a graph covering projection onto H. Despite the fact that the quest for characterizing the computational complexity of H-Cover had been started more than 30 years ago, only a handful of general results have been known so far. In this paper, we present a complete characterization of the computational complexity of covering colored graphs for the case that every equivalence class in the degree partition of the target graph has at most two vertices. We prove this result in a very general form. Following the lines of current development of topological graph theory, we study graphs in the most relaxed sense of the definition - the graphs are mixed (they may have both directed and undirected edges), may have multiple edges, loops, and semi-edges. We show that a strong P/NP-co dichotomy holds true in the sense that for each such fixed target graph H, the H-Cover problem is either polynomial time solvable for arbitrary inputs, or NP-complete even for simple input graphs.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-15576S" target="_blank" >GA20-15576S: Graph Covers: Symmetries and Complexity</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

ISBN

978-3-031-43379-5

ISSN

0302-9743

e-ISSN

1611-3349

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

101-115

Publisher name

Springer Nature

Place of publication

Cham

Event location

Fribourg, Switzerland

Event date

Jun 28, 2023

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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