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Building Large k-Cores from Sparse Graphs

Authors Fedor V. Fomin, Danil Sagunov , Kirill Simonov

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  • Theory of computation → Parameterized complexity and exact algorithms
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  • parameterized complexity
  • k-core
  • vertex cover
  • treewidth

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Abstract

A popular model to measure network stability is the k-core, that is the maximal induced subgraph in which every vertex has degree at least k. For example, k-cores are commonly used to model the unraveling phenomena in social networks. In this model, users having less than k connections within the network leave it, so the remaining users form exactly the k-core. In this paper we study the question of whether it is possible to make the network more robust by spending only a limited amount of resources on new connections. A mathematical model for the k-core construction problem is the following Edge k-Core optimization problem. We are given a graph G and integers k, b and p. The task is to ensure that the k-core of G has at least p vertices by adding at most b edges. 
The previous studies on Edge k-Core demonstrate that the problem is computationally challenging. In particular, it is NP-hard when k = 3, W[1]-hard when parameterized by k+b+p (Chitnis and Talmon, 2018), and APX-hard (Zhou et al, 2019). Nevertheless, we show that there are efficient algorithms with provable guarantee when the k-core has to be constructed from a sparse graph with some additional structural properties. Our results are  
- When the input graph is a forest, Edge k-Core is solvable in polynomial time; 
- Edge k-Core is fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) when parameterized by the minimum size of a vertex cover in the input graph. On the other hand, with such parameterization, the problem does not admit a polynomial kernel subject to a widely-believed assumption from complexity theory; 
- Edge k-Core is FPT parameterized by the treewidth of the graph plus k. This improves upon a result of Chitnis and Talmon by not requiring b to be small.  Each of our algorithms is built upon a new graph-theoretical result interesting in its own.

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Fedor V. Fomin, Danil Sagunov, and Kirill Simonov. Building Large k-Cores from Sparse Graphs. In 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 170, pp. 35:1-35:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.35

Author Details

Fedor V. Fomin
  • Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway
Danil Sagunov
  • St. Petersburg Department of V.A. Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Russia
  • JetBrains Research, St. Petersburg, Russia
Kirill Simonov
  • Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway

Funding

The research leading to these results has received funding from the Research Council of Norway via the project "MULTIVAL" (grant no. 263317).

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