Finding Large Clique Minors is Hard
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We prove that it is NP-complete, given a graph G and a parameter h, to determine whether G contains a complete graph Kh as a minor. Submitted: June 2008 Reviewed: April 2009 Revised: May 2009 Accepted: July 2009 Final: July 2009 Published: July 2008 Article type: Concise paper Communicated by: G. Liotta Research supported in part by NSF grant 0830403 and by the Office of Naval Research under grant N00014-08-1-1015. E-mail address: [email protected] (David Eppstein) 198 Eppstein Finding Large Clique Minors is Hard
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- J. Graph Algorithms Appl.
دوره 13 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009