Abstract
Packing a maximum number of disjoint triangles into a given graph G is NP-hard, even for most classes of structured graphs. In contrast, we show that packing a maximum number of independent (that is, disjoint and nonadjacent) triangles is polynomial-time solvable for many classes of structured graphs, including weakly chordal graphs, asteroidal triple-free graphs, polygon-circle graphs, and interval-filament graphs. These classes contain other well-known classes such as chordal graphs, cocomparability graphs, circle graphs, circular-arc graphs, and outerplanar graphs. Our results apply more generally to independent packings by members of any family of connected graphs.
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