TY - GEN
T1 - Vertex-Weighted Graphs: Realizable and Unrealizable Domains
T2 - 16th International Conference and Workshops, WALCOM 2022
AU - Bar-Noy, Amotz
AU - Peleg, David
AU - Rawitz, Dror
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Consider the following natural variation of the degree realization problem. Let G=(V,E)G=(V,E) be a simple undirected graph of order n. Let f∈Rn≥0f∈R≥0n be a vector of vertex requirements, and let w∈Rn≥0w∈R≥0n be a vector of provided services at the vertices. Then w satisfies f on G if the constraints ∑j∈N(i)wj=fi∑j∈N(i)wj=fi are satisfied for all i∈Vi∈V, where N(i) denotes the neighborhood of i. Given a requirements vector f, the WEIGHTED GRAPH REALIZATION problem asks for a suitable graph G and a vector w of provided services that satisfy f on G. In [7] it is observed that any requirement vector where n is even can be realized. If n is odd, the problem becomes much harder. For the unsolved cases, the decision of whether f is realizable or not can be formulated as whether fnfn (the largest requirement) lies within certain intervals. In [5] some intervals are identified where f can be realized, and their complements form n−32n−32 connected intervals (“unknown domains”) which we give odd indices k=1,3,…,n−4k=1,3,…,n−4. The unknown domain for k=1k=1 is shown to be unrealizable. Our main result presents structural properties that a graph must have if it realizes a vector in one of these unknown domains for k≥3k≥3. The unknown domains are characterized by inequalities which we translate to graph properties. Our analysis identifies several realizable sub-intervals, and shows that each of the unknown domains has at least one sub-interval that cannot be realized.
AB - Consider the following natural variation of the degree realization problem. Let G=(V,E)G=(V,E) be a simple undirected graph of order n. Let f∈Rn≥0f∈R≥0n be a vector of vertex requirements, and let w∈Rn≥0w∈R≥0n be a vector of provided services at the vertices. Then w satisfies f on G if the constraints ∑j∈N(i)wj=fi∑j∈N(i)wj=fi are satisfied for all i∈Vi∈V, where N(i) denotes the neighborhood of i. Given a requirements vector f, the WEIGHTED GRAPH REALIZATION problem asks for a suitable graph G and a vector w of provided services that satisfy f on G. In [7] it is observed that any requirement vector where n is even can be realized. If n is odd, the problem becomes much harder. For the unsolved cases, the decision of whether f is realizable or not can be formulated as whether fnfn (the largest requirement) lies within certain intervals. In [5] some intervals are identified where f can be realized, and their complements form n−32n−32 connected intervals (“unknown domains”) which we give odd indices k=1,3,…,n−4k=1,3,…,n−4. The unknown domain for k=1k=1 is shown to be unrealizable. Our main result presents structural properties that a graph must have if it realizes a vector in one of these unknown domains for k≥3k≥3. The unknown domains are characterized by inequalities which we translate to graph properties. Our analysis identifies several realizable sub-intervals, and shows that each of the unknown domains has at least one sub-interval that cannot be realized.
KW - Degree sequence
KW - Graph realization
KW - Graph-algorithms
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-96731-4_26
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-96731-4_26
M3 - منشور من مؤتمر
SN - 3030967301
SN - 9783030967307
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 315
EP - 327
BT - WALCOM: Algorithms and Computation
A2 - Mutzel, Petra
A2 - Rahman, Md. Saidur
A2 - Slamin, null
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 24 March 2022 through 26 March 2022
ER -