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Finding a subdivision of a prescribed digraph of order 4

Combinatorics 2017-08-08 v1

Abstract

The problem of when a given digraph contains a subdivision of a fixed digraph FF is considered. Bang-Jensen et al. laid out foundations for approaching this problem from the algorithmic point of view. In this paper we give further support to several open conjectures and speculations about algorithmic complexity of finding FF-subdivisions. In particular, up to 5 exceptions, we completely classify for which 4-vertex digraphs FF, the FF-subdivision problem is polynomial-time solvable and for which it is NP-complete. While all NP-hardness proofs are made by reduction from some version of the 2-linkage problem in digraphs, some of the polynomial-time solvable cases involve relatively complicated algorithms.

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@article{arxiv.1708.01777,
  title  = {Finding a subdivision of a prescribed digraph of order 4},
  author = {Frédéric Havet and A. Karolinna Maia and Bojan Mohar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.01777},
  year   = {2017}
}

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To appear in Journal of Graph Theory