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Edge-Vertex Dominating Set in Unit Disk Graphs
Given an undirected graph , a vertex is edge-vertex (ev)
dominated by an edge if is either incident to or incident to
an adjacent edge of . A set is an edge-vertex dominating
set (referred to as ev-dominating set) of if every vertex of is
ev-dominated by at least one edge of . The minimum cardinality of an
ev-dominating set is the ev-domination number. The edge-vertex dominating set
problem is to find a minimum ev-domination number. In this paper we prove that
the ev-dominating set problem is {\tt NP-hard} on unit disk graphs. We also
prove that this problem admits a polynomial-time approximation scheme on unit
disk graphs. Finally, we give a simple 5-factor linear-time approximation
algorithm
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