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Algorithmic Meta-Theorems for Combinatorial Reconfiguration Revisited

Authors Tatsuya Gima , Takehiro Ito , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi

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  • Mathematics of computing → Graph algorithms
  • Theory of computation → Parameterized complexity and exact algorithms
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  • Combinatorial reconfiguration
  • monadic second-order logic
  • fixed-parameter tractability
  • treedepth
  • neighborhood diversity

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Abstract

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 this setting, Mouawad et al. [IPEC 2014] presented an algorithmic meta-theorem for reconfiguration problems that says if the feasibility can be expressed in monadic second-order logic (MSO), then the problem is fixed-parameter tractable parameterized by treewidth + 𝓁, where 𝓁 is the number of steps allowed to reach the target set. On the other hand, it is shown by Wrochna [J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 2018] that if 𝓁 is not part of the parameter, then the problem is PSPACE-complete even on graphs of bounded bandwidth.
In this paper, we present the first algorithmic meta-theorems for the case where 𝓁 is not part of the parameter, using some structural graph parameters incomparable with bandwidth. We show that if the feasibility is defined in MSO, then the reconfiguration problem under the so-called token jumping rule is fixed-parameter tractable parameterized by neighborhood diversity. We also show that the problem is fixed-parameter tractable parameterized by treedepth + k, where k is the size of sets being transformed. We finally complement the positive result for treedepth by showing that the problem is PSPACE-complete on forests of depth 3.

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Tatsuya Gima, Takehiro Ito, Yasuaki Kobayashi, and Yota Otachi. Algorithmic Meta-Theorems for Combinatorial Reconfiguration Revisited. In 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 244, pp. 61:1-61:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.61

Author Details

Tatsuya Gima
  • Nagoya University, Japan
Takehiro Ito
  • Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Yasuaki Kobayashi
  • Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Yota Otachi
  • Nagoya University, Japan

Funding

  • Ito, Takehiro: JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP18H04091, JP19K11814, JP20H05793
  • Kobayashi, Yasuaki: JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP20H05793, JP20H00595, JP20K19742
  • Otachi, Yota: JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP18H04091, JP20H05793, JP21K11752, JP22H00513

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