The main result of this paper is the NP-completeness of the HAMILTONIAN CIRCUIT problem for chordal bipartite graphs. This is proved by a sophisticated reduction from SATISFIABILITY. As a corollary, HAMILTONIAN CIRCUIT is NP-complete for strongly chordal split graphs. On both classes the complexity
Alternating Hamiltonian circuits in edge-coloured bipartite graphs
β Scribed by A.J.W. Hilton
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 241 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0166-218X
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