Abstract:
The problem on a minimal clique (with respect to the total weight of its vertices and edges) of fixed size in a complete undirected weighted graph is considered along with some of its important special cases. Approximability questions are analyzed. The weak approximability of the problem is established for the general case. A 2-approximate effective algorithm with time complexity O(n2) is proposed for cases where vertex weights are nonnegative and edge weights either satisfy the triangle inequality or are squared pairwise distances for some system of points of a Euclidean space.
Keywords:
complete undirected graph, clique of fixed size, minimum weight of vertices and edges, subset search, approximability, polynomial approximation algorithm, performance guarantee, time complexity.
Citation:
I. I. Eremin, E. Kh. Gimadi, A. V. Kel'manov, A. V. Pyatkin, M. Yu. Khachai, “2-approximate algorithm for finding a clique with minimum weight of vertices and edges”, Trudy Inst. Mat. i Mekh. UrO RAN, 19, no. 2, 2013, 134–143; Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. (Suppl.), 284, suppl. 1 (2014), 87–95