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Vertex deletion problems are at the heart of parameterized complexity. For a graph class \(\ensuremath{\mathcal{F}} \), the \(\ensuremath{\mathcal{F}} \)-Deletion problem takes as input a graph G and an integer k. The question is whether it is possible to delete at most k vertices from G such that the resulting graph belongs to \(\ensuremath{\mathcal{F}} \). Whether Perfect Deletion is fixed-parameter tractable, and whether Chordal Deletion admits a polynomial kernel, when parameterized by k, have been stated as open questions in previous work. We show that Perfect Deletion (k) and Weakly Chordal Deletion (k) are W[2]-hard. In search of positive results, we study restricted variants such that the deleted vertices must be taken from a specified set X, which we parameterize by |X|. We show that for Perfect Deletion and Weakly Chordal Deletion, although this restriction immediately ensures fixed parameter tractability, it is not enough to yield polynomial kernels, unless NP ⊆ coNP/poly. On the positive side, for Chordal Deletion, the restriction enables us to obtain a kernel with \(\mathcal{O}(|X|^4)\) vertices.
Supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, project “KERNELS: Combinatorial Analysis of Data Reduction”, and by the Research Council of Norway, project “SCOPE: Exploiting Structure to Cope with Hard Problems”.
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Heggernes, P., Hof, P.v., Jansen, B.M.P., Kratsch, S., Villanger, Y. (2011). Parameterized Complexity of Vertex Deletion into Perfect Graph Classes. In: Owe, O., Steffen, M., Telle, J.A. (eds) Fundamentals of Computation Theory. FCT 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6914. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22953-4_21
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