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Large-Girth Roots of Graphs

Authors Anna Adamaszek, Michal Adamaszek

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  • Graph roots
  • Graph powers
  • NP-completeness
  • Recognition algorithms

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Abstract

We study the problem of recognizing graph powers and computing roots of graphs. We provide a polynomial time recognition algorithm for $r$-th powers of graphs of girth at least $2r+3$, thus improving a bound  conjectured by Farzad et al. (STACS 2009). Our algorithm also finds all $r$-th roots of a given graph that have girth at least $2r+3$ and no degree one vertices, which is a step towards a recent conjecture of Levenshtein that such root should be unique. On the negative side, we prove that recognition becomes an NP-complete problem when the bound on girth is about twice smaller. Similar results have so far only been attempted for $r=2,3$.

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Anna Adamaszek and Michal Adamaszek. Large-Girth Roots of Graphs. In 27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 5, pp. 35-46, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2442

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Anna Adamaszek
Michal Adamaszek
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