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 -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.
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@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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