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, Volume 3, Issue 4, pp 321–330 | Cite as

Complexity of diagrams

  • Jaroslav Nešetřil
  • Vojtěch Rödl
Article

Abstract

A diagram is an undirected graph corresponding to the covering relation of a finite poset. We prove that three decision problems related to diagrams are NP-complete.

AMS subject classification (1980)

06A10 

Key words

Poset diagram NP-completeness 

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© D. Reidel Publishing Company 1987

Authors and Affiliations

  • Jaroslav Nešetřil
    • 1
  • Vojtěch Rödl
    • 2
  1. 1.KAM MFF UKCharles UniversityPragueCzechoslovakia
  2. 2.FJFI ČVUTCzech Technical UniversityPragueCzechoslovakia

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