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- From: as@cs.brown.edu (Apratim Sarkar)
- Subject: NP-completeness question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.044307.9419@cs.brown.edu>
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- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:43:07 GMT
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- I need to know whether the following problem is
- NP-complete. Seems like that to me - but I can
- not prove it.
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- Given an undirected unweighted graph (V,E) and
- given a subset R of V, delete the minimum number
- of edges so that all cycles involving at least 1
- node from R are deleted. That is, in the final
- solution, there may be cycles remaining in the
- graph, but none involving nodes from R.
-
- When R=V, this is equivalent to finding the
- spanning tree of the graph and take the edge
- complement of it. This kills all the cycles in
- the graph.
-
- When R={a} for some node a, it is equivalent to
- deleting d(a) - 1 adjacent incident edges of a,
- where d(a) is the degree of a. This kills all the
- cycles through a.
-
- So the two extremes are P, but what about in the
- middle?
-
- Any suggestions?
-
- Thanks,
- Apra.
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