2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Complexity of the Identifying Code Problem in Restricted Graph Classes
verfasst von : Florent Foucaud
Erschienen in: Combinatorial Algorithms
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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An identifying code is a subset of vertices of a graph such that each vertex is uniquely determined by its nonempty neighbourhood within the identifying code. We study the associated computational problem
Minimum Identifying Code
, which is known to be
NP
-hard, even when the input graph belongs to a number of specific graph classes such as planar bipartite graphs. Though the problem is approximable within a logarithmic factor, it is known to be hard to approximate within any sub-logarithmic factor. We extend the latter result to the case where the input graph is bipartite, split or co-bipartite. Among other results, we also show that for bipartite graphs of bounded maximum degree (at least 3), it is hard to approximate within some constant factor. We summarize known results in the area, and we compare them to the ones for the related problem
Minimum Dominating Set
. In particular, our work exhibits important graph classes for which
Minimum Dominating Set
is efficiently solvable, but
Minimum Identifying Code
is hard (whereas in all previously studied classes, their complexity is the same). We also introduce a graph class for which the converse holds.