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Dynamic monopolies for interval graphs with bounded thresholds

Discrete Mathematics 2018-02-13 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

For a graph GG and an integer-valued threshold function τ\tau on its vertex set, a dynamic monopoly is a set of vertices of GG such that iteratively adding to it vertices uu of GG that have at least τ(u)\tau(u) neighbors in it eventually yields the vertex set of GG. We show that the problem of finding a dynamic monopoly of minimum order can be solved in polynomial time for interval graphs with bounded threshold functions, but is NP-hard for chordal graphs allowing unbounded threshold functions.

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@article{arxiv.1802.03935,
  title  = {Dynamic monopolies for interval graphs with bounded thresholds},
  author = {Stéphane Bessy and Stefan Ehard and Lucia D. Penso and Dieter Rautenbach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03935},
  year   = {2018}
}
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