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Dense Graph Partitioning on Sparse and Dense Graphs

Authors Cristina Bazgan , Katrin Casel , Pierre Cazals

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Cristina Bazgan
  • Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL Research University, CNRS, UMR 7243, LAMSADE, 75016 Paris, France
Katrin Casel
  • Hasso Plattner Institut, Universität Potsdam, Germany
Pierre Cazals
  • Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL Research University, CNRS, UMR 7243, LAMSADE, 75016 Paris, France

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Cristina Bazgan, Katrin Casel, and Pierre Cazals. Dense Graph Partitioning on Sparse and Dense Graphs. In 18th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 227, pp. 13:1-13:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2022.13

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We consider the problem of partitioning a graph into a non-fixed number of non-overlapping subgraphs of maximum density. The density of a partition is the sum of the densities of the subgraphs, where the density of a subgraph is half its average degree, that is, the ratio of its number of edges and its number of vertices. This problem, called Dense Graph Partition, is known to be NP-hard on general graphs and polynomial-time solvable on trees, and polynomial-time 2-approximable.
In this paper we study the restriction of Dense Graph Partition to particular sparse and dense graph classes. In particular, we prove that it is NP-hard on dense bipartite graphs as well as on cubic graphs. On dense graphs on n vertices, it is polynomial-time solvable on graphs with minimum degree n-3 and NP-hard on (n-4)-regular graphs. We prove that it is polynomial-time 4/3-approximable on cubic graphs and admits an efficient polynomial-time approximation scheme on graphs of minimum degree n-t for any constant t ≥ 4.

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  • Mathematics of computing → Combinatorial optimization
  • Mathematics of computing → Graph algorithms
  • Mathematics of computing → Approximation algorithms
Keywords
  • NP-hardness
  • approximation
  • density
  • graph partitioning
  • bipartite graphs
  • cubic graphs
  • dense graphs

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