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- From: bdm@cs.anu.edu.au (Brendan McKay)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory
- Subject: Is this NP-complete?
- Message-ID: <1ipgg2INNobm@tyl.anu.edu.au>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 15:48:18 GMT
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- A generalised regular family (GRF) of sets is represented by a
- vector (bot;top[1],...,top[n]) where bot and each top[i] are sets,
- and each top[i] is a superset of bot. The GRF consists of all
- sets X such that bot <= X <= top[i] for some i, where "<=" means
- "subset". A _simple_ GRF is one with n=1.
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- INSTANCE: A GRF F; and integer K >= 0.
- QUESTION: Is F equal to the disjoint union of at most K
- simple GRFs?
-
- What is the complexity of this problem? I suspect it is NP-complete
- but can't rule out some simple dynamic program (or something).
- This problem arose from a graph computation that runs faster
- if GRFs can be quickly split into a small number of simple GRFs.
-
- Thanks,
- Brendan McKay.
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