20th CoRe Seminar
Date and time: | 2022.01.06 Thu. 10:00-12:00
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Venue: | Online |
Speaker: | OHSAKA, Naoto (CyberAgent, Inc., invited talk) |
Title: | On reconfigurability of target sets |
Summary: | We study the problem of deciding reconfigurability of target sets of a graph. Given a graph $G$ with vertex thresholds $\tau$, consider a dynamic process in which vertex $v$ becomes activated once at least $\tau(v)$ of its neighbors are activated. A vertex set $S$ is called a "target set" if all vertices of $G$ would be activated when initially activating vertices of $S$. In the Target Set Reconfiguration problem, given two target sets $X$ and $Y$ of the same size, we are required to determine whether $X$ can be transformed into $Y$ by repeatedly swapping one vertex in the current set with another vertex not in the current set preserving every intermediate set as a target set. In this talk, we investigate the complexity of Target Set Reconfiguration in restricted cases. On the hardness side, we prove that Target Set Reconfiguration is PSPACE-complete on bipartite planar graphs of degree 3 or 4 and of threshold 2, bipartite 3-regular graphs of threshold 1 or 2, and split graphs, which is in contrast to the fact that a special case called Vertex Cover Reconfiguration is in P for the last graph class. On the positive side, we present a polynomial-time algorithm for Target Set Reconfiguration on graphs of maximum degree 2 and trees. The latter result can be thought of as a generalization of that for Vertex Cover Reconfiguration.
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Update:2021.12.17