Abstract

In this work, we investigate the computational complexity of Restless Temporal(s,z)-Separation, where we are asked whether it is possible to destroy all restless temporal paths between two distinct vertices s and z by deleting at most k vertices from a temporal graph. A temporal graph has a fixed vertex set but the edges have (discrete) time stamps. A restless temporal path uses edges with non-decreasing time stamps and the time spent at each vertex must not exceed a given duration Δ.Restless Temporal(s,z)-Separation naturally generalizes the NP-hard Temporal(s,z)-Separation problem. We show that Restless Temporal(s,z)-Separation is complete for Σ2P, a complexity class located in the second level of the polynomial time hierarchy. We further provide some insights in the parameterized complexity of Restless Temporal(s,z)-Separation parameterized by the separator size k.

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