期刊名称:International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology
印刷版ISSN:2347-6710
电子版ISSN:2319-8753
出版年度:2015
卷号:4
期号:6
页码:4067
DOI:10.15680/IJIRSET.2015.0406199
出版社:S&S Publications
摘要:A path partition of a graph is a collection of vertex-disjoint paths that cover all vertices of the graph. Thepath-partition problem is to find the path-partition number p(G) of a graph G, which is the minimum cardinality of apath partition of G. Obviously G has a Hamiltonian path if and only if [2]p(G)= 1. Since the Hamiltonian path problem is NP complete forplanar graphs, bipartite graphs, chordal graphs,chordal bipartite graphs and strongly chordal graphs, so is the path-partition problem. On the other hand, the pathpartitionproblem is polynomially solvable for trees, interval graphs, circular-arc graphs, co graphs, co comparabilitygraphs, block graphs and bipartite distance hereditary graphs.