Covering with Clubs: Complexity and Approximability

06/04/2018
by   Riccardo Dondi, et al.
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Finding cohesive subgraphs in a network is a well-known problem in graph theory. Several alternative formulations of cohesive subgraph have been proposed, a notable example being s-club, which is a subgraph where each vertex is at distance at most s to the others. Here we consider the problem of covering a given graph with the minimum number of s-clubs. We study the computational and approximation complexity of this problem, when s is equal to 2 or 3. First, we show that deciding if there exists a cover of a graph with three 2-clubs is NP-complete, and that deciding if there exists a cover of a graph with two 3-clubs is NP-complete. Then, we consider the approximation complexity of covering a graph with the minimum number of 2-clubs and 3-clubs. We show that, given a graph G=(V,E) to be covered, covering G with the minimum number of 2-clubs is not approximable within factor O(|V|^1/2 -ε), for any ε>0, and covering G with the minimum number of 3-clubs is not approximable within factor O(|V|^1 -ε), for any ε>0. On the positive side, we give an approximation algorithm of factor 2|V|^1/2^3/2 |V| for covering a graph with the minimum number of 2-clubs.

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