Junran Yu, Jing Hu, Jiaquan Gao, Donglei Du, Xiaoyan Zhang
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Abstract
Motivated by the result of balanced connected graph edge partition problem for trees, we investigate the 2-balanced connected graph vertex k-partition problem. This paper leverages the charity vertex method and proposes several algorithms for 2-balanced vertex-connected partitioning. Furthermore, we prove that these algorithms are polynomial-time solvable on degree-bounded graphs, thereby refining and extending the results of Caragiannis et al.
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The objective of Journal of Combinatorial Optimization is to advance and promote the theory and applications of combinatorial optimization, which is an area of research at the intersection of applied mathematics, computer science, and operations research and which overlaps with many other areas such as computation complexity, computational biology, VLSI design, communication networks, and management science. It includes complexity analysis and algorithm design for combinatorial optimization problems, numerical experiments and problem discovery with applications in science and engineering.
The Journal of Combinatorial Optimization publishes refereed papers dealing with all theoretical, computational and applied aspects of combinatorial optimization. It also publishes reviews of appropriate books and special issues of journals.