Complexity of Token Swapping and Its Variants
Complexity of Token Swapping and Its Variants
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代币交换的复杂性及其变体
DOI:
10.1007/s00453-017-0387-0
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发表时间:
2016
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影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
Paweł Rzaͅżewski
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作者:
Édouard Bonnet;Tillmann Miltzow;Paweł Rzaͅżewski
In theToken Swappingproblem we are given a graph with a token placed on each vertex. Each token has exactly one destination vertex, and we try to move all the tokens to their destinations, using the minimum number of swaps, i.e., operations of exchanging the tokens on two adjacent vertices. As the main result of this paper, we show thatToken Swappingis-hard parameterized by the lengthkof a shortest sequence of swaps. In fact, we prove that, for any computable functionf, it cannot be solved in timewherenis the number of vertices of the input graph, unless the ETH fails. This lower bound almost matches the trivial-time algorithm. We also consider two generalizations of theToken Swapping, namelyColored Token Swapping(where the tokens have colors and tokens of the same color are indistinguishable), andSubset Token Swapping(where each token has a set of possible destinations). To complement the hardness result, we prove that even the most general variant,Subset Token Swapping, is FPT in nowhere-dense graph classes. Finally, we consider the complexities of all three problems in very restricted classes of graphs: graphs of bounded treewidth and diameter, stars, cliques, and paths, trying to identify the borderlines between polynomial and NP-hard cases.
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发表时间:
2008
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Discrete Mathematics 308
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作者:
Y. Hiramine;C. Suetake;K. Akiyama C. Suetake
通讯作者:
K. Akiyama C. Suetake