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Reconfiguring Independent Sets in Claw-Free Graphs

Discrete Mathematics 2014-03-04 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We present a polynomial-time algorithm that, given two independent sets in a claw-free graph GG, decides whether one can be transformed into the other by a sequence of elementary steps. Each elementary step is to remove a vertex vv from the current independent set SS and to add a new vertex ww (not in SS) such that the result is again an independent set. We also consider the more restricted model where vv and ww have to be adjacent.

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@article{arxiv.1403.0359,
  title  = {Reconfiguring Independent Sets in Claw-Free Graphs},
  author = {Paul Bonsma and Marcin Kamiński and Marcin Wrochna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.0359},
  year   = {2014}
}
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