Maximum weight independent sets in odd-hole-free graphs without dart or without bull

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Abstract: The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) Problem on graphs with vertex weights asks for a set of pairwise nonadjacent vertices of maximum total weight. Being one of the most investigated and most important problems on graphs, it is well known to be NP-complete and hard to approximate. The complexity of MWIS is open for hole-free graphs (i.e., graphs without induced subgraphs isomorphic to a chordless cycle of length at least five). By applying clique separator decomposition as well as modular decomposition, we obtain polynomial time solutions of MWIS for odd-hole- and dart-free graphs as well as for odd-hole- and bull-free graphs (dart and bull have five vertices, say a,b,c,d,e, and dart has edges ab,ac,ad,bd,cd,de, while bull has edges ab,bc,cd,be,ce). If the graphs are hole-free instead of odd-hole-free then stronger structural results and better time bounds are obtained.



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