Locally constrained homomorphisms on graphs of bounded treewidth and bounded degree

Steven Chaplick, Jirí Fiala, Pim van 't Hof, Daniël Paulusma*, Marek Tesar

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Abstract

A homomorphism from a graph G to a graph H is locally bijective, surjective, or injective if its restriction to the neighborhood of every vertex of G is bijective, surjective, or injective, respectively. We prove that the problems of testing whether a given graph G allows a homomorphism to a given graph H that is locally bijective, surjective, or injective, respectively, are NP-complete, even when G has pathwidth at most 5, 4, or 2, respectively, or when both G and H have maximum degree 3. We complement these hardness results by showing that the three problems are polynomial-time solvable if G has bounded treewidth and in addition G or H has bounded maximum degree. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)86-95
JournalTheoretical Computer Science
Volume590
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes

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