Title
Core Influence Mechanism on Vertex-Cover Problem through Leaf-Removal-Core Breaking.
Abstract
Leaf-removal process has been widely researched and applied in many mathematical and physical fields to help understand the complex systems. A lot of problems including the minimum vertex-cover are deeply related to this process and the leaf-removal cores. In this paper, based on the structural features of the leaf-removal cores, a method named core influence is proposed to break the graphs into no-leaf-removal-core ones, which takes advantages of identifying some significant nodes by localized and greedy strategy. By decomposing the minimum vertex-cover problem into the leaf-removal core breaking process and maximal matching of the remaining graphs, it is proved that any minimum vertex-cover of the whole graph can be located into these two processes and the best boundary is achieved at the transition point. Compared with other node importance indices, the core influence method could break down the leaf-removal cores much faster and get the no-core graphs by removing fewer nodes from the graphs. Also, the vertex-cover numbers resulted from this method are lower than those of existing node importance measurements, and compared with the exact minimum vertex-cover numbers, this method performs appropriate accuracy and stability at different scales. This research provides a new localized greedy strategy to break the hard leaf-removal cores efficiently and heuristic methods could be constructed to promote the comprehension of the intrinsic hardness of NP problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1088/1742-5468/ab25e1
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT
Keywords
Field
DocType
classical phase transitions,optimization over networks,random graphs,networks,typical-case computational complexity
Complex system,Data mining,Graph,Heuristic,Computer science,Transition point,Algorithm,Matching (graph theory),Vertex cover,NP
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
abs/1810.05799
7
1742-5468
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiangnan Feng100.68
Wei Wei201.35
Xing Li300.34
Zhiming Zheng412816.80