NP-hardness results for partitioning graphs into disjoint cliques and a triangle-free subgraph

نویسندگان

  • Carl Feghali
  • Faisal N. Abu-Khzam
  • Haiko Muller
چکیده

This paper investigates the computational complexity of deciding whether the vertices of a graph can be partitioned into a disjoint union of cliques and a triangle-free subgraph. This problem is known to be NP-complete on arbitrary graphs. We show that this problem remains NP-complete even when restricted to planar graphs and perfect graphs.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1403.5248  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014