Vertex-partitioning into fixed additive induced-hereditary properties is NP-hard
Combinatorics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Can the vertices of a graph be partitioned into , so that is a line-graph and is a forest? Can be partitioned into a planar graph and a perfect graph? The NP-completeness of these problems are just special cases of our result: if and are additive induced-hereditary graph properties, then -colouring is NP-hard, with the sole exception of graph 2-colouring (the case where both and are the set of finite edgeless graphs). Moreover, -colouring is NP-complete iff - and -recognition are both in NP. This proves a conjecture of Kratochv\'{\i}l and Schiermeyer.
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@article{arxiv.math/0306158,
title = {Vertex-partitioning into fixed additive induced-hereditary properties is NP-hard},
author = {Alastair Farrugia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0306158},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Electron. J. Combin