,
Petr A. Golovach
,
Dimitrios M. Thilikos
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
A replacement action is a function L that maps each k-vertex labeled graph to another k-vertex graph. We consider a general family of graph modification problems, called L-Replacement to C, where the input is a graph G and the question is whether it is possible to replace in G some k-vertex subgraph H of it by L(H) so that the new graph belongs to the graph class C. L-Replacement to C can simulate several modification operations such as edge addition, edge removal, edge editing, and diverse completion and superposition operations. In this paper, we prove that for any action L, if C is the class of planar graphs, there is an algorithm that solves L-Replacement to C in O(|G|^{2}) steps. We also present several applications of our approach to related problems.
@InProceedings{fomin_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2019.28,
author = {Fomin, Fedor V. and Golovach, Petr A. and Thilikos, Dimitrios M.},
title = {{Modification to Planarity is Fixed Parameter Tractable}},
booktitle = {36th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2019)},
pages = {28:1--28:17},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-100-9},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2019},
volume = {126},
editor = {Niedermeier, Rolf and Paul, Christophe},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2019.28},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-102677},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2019.28},
annote = {Keywords: Modification problems, Planar graphs, Irrelevant vertex technique}
}