Parameterized Graph Editing with Chosen Vertex Degrees

We study the parameterized complexity of the following problem: is it possible to make a given graph r-regular by applying at most k elementary editing operations; the operations are vertex deletion, edge deletion, and edge addition. We also consider more general annotated variants of this problem, where vertices and edges are assigned an integer cost and each vertex v has assigned its own desired degree (v) {0, . . . , r}. We show that both problems are fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by (k, r), but W[1]-hard when parameterized by k alone. These results extend our earlier results on problems that are defined similarly but where edge addition is not available. We also show that if edge addition and/or deletion are the only available operations, then the problems are solvable in polynomial time. This completes the classification for all combinations of the three considered editing operations.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: COCOA
• Authors: Luke Mathieson, Stefan Szeider
• Keywords: COCOA 2008, Discrete Geometry, Edge Addition, Editing Operations, Elementary Editing Operations