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Treewidth is NP-Complete on Cubic Graphs (and related results)

Computational Complexity 2023-03-03 v2 Data Structures and Algorithms Combinatorics

Abstract

In this paper, we give a very simple proof that Treewidth is NP-complete; this proof also shows NP-completeness on the class of co-bipartite graphs. We then improve the result by Bodlaender and Thilikos from 1997 that Treewidth is NP-complete on graphs with maximum degree at most 9, by showing that Treewidth is NP-complete on cubic graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2301.10031,
  title  = {Treewidth is NP-Complete on Cubic Graphs (and related results)},
  author = {Hans L. Bodlaender and Édouard Bonnet and Lars Jaffke and Dušan Knop and Paloma T. Lima and Martin Milanič and Sebastian Ordyniak and Sukanya Pandey and Ondřej Suchý},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.10031},
  year   = {2023}
}