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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2022

Token Sliding on Graphs of Girth Five.

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In the Token Sliding problem we are given a graph G and two independent sets Is and It in G of size k≥1. The goal is to decide whether there exists a sequence ⟨I1,I2,…,Iℓ⟩ of independent sets such that for all i∈{1,…,ℓ} the set Ii is an independent set of size k, I1=Is, Iℓ=It and Ii△Ii+1={u,v}∈E(G). Intuitively, we view each independent set as a collection of tokens placed on the vertices of the graph. Then, the problem asks whether there exists a sequence of independent sets that transforms Is into It where at each step we are allowed to slide one token from a vertex to a neighboring vertex. In this paper, we focus on the parameterized complexity of Token Sliding parameterized by k. As shown by Bartier et al., the problem is W[1]-hard on graphs of girth four or less, and the authors posed the question of whether there exists a constant p≥5 such that the problem becomes fixed-parameter tractable on graphs of girth at least p. We answer their question positively and prove that the problem is indeed fixed-parameter tractable on graphs of girth five or more, which establishes a full classification of the tractability of Token Sliding parameterized by the number of tokens based on the girth of the input graph.

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hal-03829759 , version 1 (25-10-2022)

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Valentin Bartier, Nicolas Bousquet, Jihad Hanna, Amer Mouawad, Sebastian Siebertz. Token Sliding on Graphs of Girth Five.. WG, Jun 2022, Tubingen, Germany. pp.56--69, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-15914-5\_5⟩. ⟨hal-03829759⟩
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