Title
The Complexity Of Pebbling Reachability And Solvability In Planar And Outerplanar Graphs
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-31-2014
Publication Source
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Volume Number
172
First Page
62
Last Page
74
Publisher
Elsevier Science BV
ISSN
0166-218X
Abstract
Given a simple, connected graph, a pebbling configuration is a function from its vertex set to the nonnegative integers. A pebbling move between adjacent vertices removes two pebbles from one vertex and adds one pebble to the other. A vertex r is said to be reachable from a configuration if there exists a sequence of pebbling moves that places at least one pebble on r. A configuration is solvable if every vertex is reachable. We prove that determining reachability of a vertex and solvability of a configuration are NP-complete on planar graphs. We also prove that both reachability and solvability can be determined in O(n6)time on planar graphs with diameter two. Finally, for outerplanar graphs, we present a linear algorithm for determining reachability and a quadratic algorithm for determining solvability. To prove this result, we provide linear algorithms to determine all possible maximal configurations of pebbles that can be placed on the endpoints of a path and on two adjacent vertices in a cycle.
Keywords
Graph Pebbling, Planar, Outerplanar, NP-complete, Diameter 2 Graphs, Cycles
Recommended Citation
Lewis, Timothy, Charles A. Cusack, and Lisa Dion. “The Complexity of Pebbling Reachability and Solvability in Planar and Outerplanar Graphs.” Discrete Applied Mathematics 172 (July 31, 2014): 62–74. doi:10.1016/j.dam.2014.03.008.
