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Polynomial Kernel for Interval Vertex Deletion

  • Akanksha Agrawal
  • , Daniel Lokshtanov
  • , Pranabendu Misra
  • , Saket Saurabh
  • , Meirav Zehavi

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    Abstract

    Given a graph G and an integer k, the Interval Vertex Deletion (IVD) problem asks whether there exists a subset S ⊆ V(G) of size at most k such that G-S is an interval graph. This problem is known to be NP-complete (according to Yannakakis at STOC 1978). Originally in 2012, Cao and Marx showed that IVD is fixed parameter tractable: they exhibited an algorithm with running time 10k nO(1). The existence of a polynomial kernel for IVD remained a well-known open problem in parameterized complexity. In this article, we settle this problem in the affirmative.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number11
    JournalACM Transactions on Algorithms
    Volume19
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 15 Apr 2023

    Keywords

    • Interval Vertex Deletion
    • kernelization
    • parameterized complexity
    • polynomial kernel

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Mathematics (miscellaneous)

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