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Approximation hardness of dominating set problems in bounded degree graphs

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    Abstract

    We study approximation hardness of the Minimum Dominating Set problem and its variants in undirected and directed graphs. Using a similar result obtained by Trevisan for Minimum Set Cover we prove the first explicit approximation lower bounds for various kinds of domination problems (connected, total, independent) in bounded degree graphs. Asymptotically, for degree bound approaching infinity, these bounds almost match the known upper bounds. The results are applied to improve the lower bounds for other related problems such as Maximum Induced Matching and Maximum Leaf Spanning Tree.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1264-1275
    Number of pages12
    JournalInformation and Computation
    Volume206
    Issue number11
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Nov 2008

    Keywords

    • dominatig set problems
    • bounded-degree graphs
    • approximation hardness

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