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For a fixed positive integer $d \geq 2$, a distance-$d$ independent set (D$d$IS) of a graph is a vertex subset whose distance between any two members is at least $d$. Imagine that there is a token placed on each member of a D$d$IS. Two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Duc A. Hoang

A dominating set of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a set of vertices $D \subseteq V$ whose closed neighborhood is $V$, i.e., $N[D]=V$. We view a dominating set as a collection of tokens placed on the vertices of $D$. In the token sliding variant of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Nicolas Bousquet , Quentin Deschamps , Arnaud Mary , Amer E. Mouawad , Théo Pierron

We study the following independent set reconfiguration problem, called TAR-Reachability: given two independent sets $I$ and $J$ of a graph $G$, both of size at least $k$, is it possible to transform $I$ into $J$ by adding and removing…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-02-10 Paul Bonsma

Given two independent sets $I, J$ of a graph $G$, and imagine that a token (coin) is placed at each vertex of $I$. The Sliding Token problem asks if one could transform $I$ to $J$ via a sequence of elementary steps, where each step requires…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Duc A. Hoang , Ryuhei Uehara

Two independent sets of a graph are adjacent if they differ on exactly one vertex (i.e. we can transform one into the other by adding or deleting a vertex). Let $k$ be an integer. We consider the reconfiguration graph $TAR_k(G)$ on the set…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Marthe Bonamy , Nicolas Bousquet

A vertex-subset graph problem Q defines which subsets of the vertices of an input graph are feasible solutions. A reconfiguration variant of a vertex-subset problem asks, given two feasible solutions S and T of size k, whether it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Daniel Lokshtanov , Amer E. Mouawad , Fahad Panolan , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

We study the dominating set reconfiguration problem with the token sliding rule. It consists, given a graph G=(V,E) and two dominating sets D_s and D_t of G, in determining if there exists a sequence S=<D_1:=D_s,...,D_l:=D_t> of dominating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Nicolas Bousquet , Alice Joffard

The independent set reconfiguration problem asks whether one can transform one given independent set of a graph into another, by changing vertices one by one in such a way the intermediate sets remain independent. Extremal problems on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Nicolas Bousquet , Bastien Durain , Théo Pierron , Stéphan Thomassé

Let $\mathcal{Q}$ be a vertex subset problem on graphs. In a reconfiguration variant of $\mathcal{Q}$ we are given a graph $G$ and two feasible solutions $S_s, S_t\subseteq V(G)$ of $\mathcal{Q}$ with $|S_s|=|S_t|=k$. The problem is to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Sebastian Siebertz

We explore a reconfiguration version of the dominating set problem, where a dominating set in a graph $G$ is a set $S$ of vertices such that each vertex is either in $S$ or has a neighbour in $S$. In a reconfiguration problem, the goal is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-01-31 Akira Suzuki , Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura

Suppose that we are given two independent sets I_b and I_r of a graph such that |I_b|=|I_r|, and imagine that a token is placed on each vertex in |I_b|. Then, the sliding token problem is to determine whether there exists a sequence of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Takeshi Yamada , Ryuhei Uehara

We introduce a new framework for reconfiguration problems, and apply it to independent sets as the first example. Suppose that we are given an independent set $I_0$ of a graph $G$, and an integer $l \ge 0$ which represents a lower bound on…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Takehiro Ito , Haruka Mizuta , Naomi Nishimura , Akira Suzuki

Traditionally, reconfiguration problems ask the question whether a given solution of an optimization problem can be transformed to a target solution in a sequence of small steps that preserve feasibility of the intermediate solutions. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Mark de Berg , Bart M. P. Jansen , Debankur Mukherjee

Let $G$ be a graph and $D_s$ and $D_t$ be two dominating sets of $G$ of size $k$. Does there exist a sequence $\langle D_0 = D_s, D_1, \ldots, D_{\ell-1}, D_\ell = D_t \rangle$ of dominating sets of $G$ such that $D_{i+1}$ can be obtained…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Marthe Bonamy , Paul Dorbec , Paul Ouvrard

The independent set reconfiguration problem (ISReconf) is the problem of determining, for given independent sets I_s and I_t of a graph G, whether I_s can be transformed into I_t by repeatedly applying a prescribed reconfiguration rule that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hiroki Hatano , Naoki Kitamura , Taisuke Izumi , Takehiro Ito , Toshimitsu Masuzawa

Given a graph and two vertex sets satisfying a certain feasibility condition, a reconfiguration problem asks whether we can reach one vertex set from the other by repeating prescribed modification steps while maintaining feasibility. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Tatsuya Gima , Takehiro Ito , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi

Suppose that we are given two independent sets $I_b$ and $I_r$ of a graph such that $|I_b|=|I_r|$, and imagine that a token is placed on each vertex in $I_b$. Then, the sliding token problem is to determine whether there exists a sequence…

We settle the parameterized complexities of several variants of independent set reconfiguration and dominating set reconfiguration, parameterized by the number of tokens. We show that both problems are XL-complete when there is no limit on…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hans L. Bodlaender , Carla Groenland , Céline M. F. Swennenhuis

In this paper, we present novel algorithms that efficiently compute a shortest reconfiguration sequence between two given dominating sets in trees and interval graphs under the Token Sliding model. In this problem, a graph is provided along…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Jan Matyáš Křišťan , Jakub Svoboda

A set of vertices in a graph is c-colorable if the subgraph induced by the set has a proper c-coloring. In this paper, we study the problem of finding a step-by-step transformation (reconfiguration) between two c-colorable sets in the same…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Takehiro Ito , Yota Otachi