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Dominating sets reconfiguration under token sliding

Computational Complexity 2021-05-21 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Let GG be a graph and DsD_s and DtD_t be two dominating sets of GG of size kk. Does there exist a sequence D0=Ds,D1,,D1,D=Dt\langle D_0 = D_s, D_1, \ldots, D_{\ell-1}, D_\ell = D_t \rangle of dominating sets of GG such that Di+1D_{i+1} can be obtained from DiD_i by replacing one vertex with one of its neighbors? In this paper, we investigate the complexity of this decision problem. We first prove that this problem is PSPACE-complete, even when restricted to split, bipartite or bounded treewidth graphs. On the other hand, we prove that it can be solved in polynomial time on dually chordal graphs (a superclass of both trees and interval graphs) or cographs.

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@article{arxiv.1912.03127,
  title  = {Dominating sets reconfiguration under token sliding},
  author = {Marthe Bonamy and Paul Dorbec and Paul Ouvrard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.03127},
  year   = {2021}
}
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