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NP-hardness results for partitioning graphs into disjoint cliques and a triangle-free subgraph

Discrete Mathematics 2014-04-10 v3 Computational Complexity

Abstract

This paper investigates the computational complexity of deciding whether the vertices of a graph can be partitioned into a disjoint union of cliques and a triangle-free subgraph. This problem is known to be \NP\NP-complete on arbitrary graphs. We show that this problem remains \NP\NP-complete even when restricted to planar graphs and perfect graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1403.5248,
  title  = {NP-hardness results for partitioning graphs into disjoint cliques and a triangle-free subgraph},
  author = {Carl Feghali and Faisal N. Abu-Khzam and Haiko Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.5248},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

10 pages, 4 figures. The results in this paper can now be found, including further results, in our submission entitled "On the Complexity of Partitioning a Graph into Disjoint Cliques and a Triangle-free Subgraph", arXiv:1403.5961