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Parameterized complexity of edge-coloured and signed graph homomorphism problems
We study the complexity of graph modification problems for homomorphism-based
properties of edge-coloured graphs. A homomorphism from an edge-coloured graph
to an edge-coloured graph is a vertex-mapping from to that
preserves adjacencies and edge-colours. We consider the property of having a
homomorphism to a fixed edge-coloured graph . Given an edge-coloured graph
, can we perform graph operations so that the resulting graph has a
homomorphism to ? The operations we consider are vertex-deletion,
edge-deletion and switching (an operation that permutes the colours of the
edges incident to a given vertex). Switching plays an important role in the
theory of signed graphs, that are -edge-coloured graphs whose colours are
and . We denote the corresponding problems (parameterized by ) by
VERTEX DELETION -COLOURING, EDGE DELETION -COLOURING and SWITCHING
-COLOURING. These generalise -COLOURING (where one has to decide if an
input graph admits a homomorphism to ). Our main focus is when has order
at most , a case that includes standard problems such as VERTEX COVER, ODD
CYCLE TRANSVERSAL and EDGE BIPARTIZATION. For such a graph , we give a
P/NP-complete complexity dichotomy for all three studied problems. Then, we
address their parameterized complexity. We show that all VERTEX DELETION
-COLOURING and EDGE DELETION -COLOURING problems for such are FPT.
This is in contrast with the fact that already for some of order~,
unless P=NP, none of the three considered problems is in XP. We show that the
situation is different for SWITCHING -COLOURING: there are three
-edge-coloured graphs of order for which this is W-hard, and
assuming the ETH, admits no algorithm in time for inputs of size
. For the other cases, SWITCHING -COLOURING is FPT.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures, 1 table. To appear in proceedings of IPEC 201