Upper Domination: Complexity and Approximation

Title
Upper Domination: Complexity and Approximation
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Bazgan, Cristina
Brankovic, Ljiljana
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5056-4627
Email: lbrankov@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:lbrankov
Casel, Katrin
Fernau, Henning
Jansen, Klaus
Klein, Kim-Manuel
Lampis, Michael
Liedloff, Mathieu
Monnot, Jérôme
Paschos, Vangelis Th
Editor
Editor(s): Veli Mäkinen, Simon J Puglisi and Leena Salmela
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Springer
Place of publication
Cham, Switzerland
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-44543-4_19
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/54504
Abstract

We consider Upper Domination, the problem of finding a maximum cardinality minimal dominating set in a graph. We show that this problem does not admit an n1-ϵ approximation for any ϵ>0, making it significantly harder than Dominating Set, while it remains hard even on severely restricted special cases, such as cubic graphs (APX-hard), and planar subcubic graphs (NP-hard). We complement our negative results by showing that the problem admits an O(Δ) approximation on graphs of maximum degree Δ, as well as an EPTAS on planar graphs. Along the way, we also derive essentially tight n1-1d upper and lower bounds on the approximability of the related problem Maximum Minimal Hitting Set on d-uniform hypergraphs, generalising known results for Maximum Minimal Vertex Cover.

Link
Citation
Combinatorial Algorithms: Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, p. 241-252
ISBN
9783319445434
9783319445427
331944543X
Start page
241
End page
252

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