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A note on the hardness of graph diameter augmentation problems

Discrete Mathematics 2009-09-23 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

A graph has \emph{diameter} D if every pair of vertices are connected by a path of at most D edges. The Diameter-D Augmentation problem asks how to add the a number of edges to a graph in order to make the resulting graph have diameter D. It was previously known that this problem is NP-hard \cite{GJ}, even in the D=2 case. In this note, we give a simpler reduction to arrive at this fact and show that this problem is W[2]-hard.

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@article{arxiv.0909.3877,
  title  = {A note on the hardness of graph diameter augmentation problems},
  author = {James Nastos and Yong Gao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.3877},
  year   = {2009}
}

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