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Biclique Reconfiguration in Bipartite Graphs

Data Structures and Algorithms 2026-05-19 v2

Abstract

We prove that Balanced Biclique Reconfiguration on bipartite graphs is PSPACE-complete. This implies the PSPACE-completeness of the spanning variant of Subgraph Reconfiguration under the token jumping rule for the property "a graph is an (i,j)(i, j)-complete bipartite graph," which was previously known only to be NP-hard [Hanaka et al. TCS 2020]. Using our result, we also show that Connected Components Reconfiguration with two connected components is PSPACE-complete under all previously studied rules, resolving an open problem of Nakahata [COCOON 2025] in the negative.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2603.17706,
  title  = {Biclique Reconfiguration in Bipartite Graphs},
  author = {Yota Otachi and Emi Toyoda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17706},
  year   = {2026}
}

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10 pages

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