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Approximation hardness of minimum edge dominating set and minimum maximal matching

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    Abstract

    We provide the first interesting explicit lower bounds on efficient approximability for two closely related optimization problems in graphs, Minimum Edge Dominating Set and Minimum Maximal Matching. We show that it is NP-hard to approximate the solution of both problems to within any constant factor smaller than 76 . The result extends with negligible loss to bounded degree graphs and to everywhere dense graphs.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAlgorithms and computation
    Subtitle of host publication14th international symposium, ISAAC 2003, Kyoto, Japan, December 15-17, 2003. proceedings
    EditorsToshihide Ibaraki, Naoki Katoh, Hirotaka Ono
    Place of PublicationBerlin
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages415-424
    Volume2906
    ISBN (Electronic)9783540245872
    ISBN (Print)9783540206958
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2003

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
    PublisherSpringer
    Volume2906
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Keywords

    • minimum edge dominating set
    • minimum maximal matching
    • approximation lower bound
    • bounded degree graphs
    • everywhere dense graphs

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