Lovász-Schrijver SDP-operator, near-perfect graphs and near-bipartite graphs

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Abstract: We study the Lov'asz-Schrijver lift-and-project operator (LS+) based on the cone of symmetric, positive semidefinite matrices, applied to the fractional stable set polytope of graphs. The problem of obtaining a combinatorial characterization of graphs for which the LS+-operator generates the stable set polytope in one step has been open since 1990. We call these graphs LS+-perfect. In the current contribution, we pursue a full combinatorial characterization of LS+-perfect graphs and make progress towards such a characterization by establishing a new, close relationship among LS+-perfect graphs, near-bipartite graphs and a newly introduced concept of full-support-perfect graphs.


The authors face the problem of characterizing the stable set polytope of \(LS_+\) (Lovasz-Schrijver lift and project operator) perfect graphs, a graph class where the maximum weight stable set problem is polynomial time solvable. The work is structured in six sections. In Section 1 and Section 2, related results of other authors from the domain of this paper are presented that will be used throughout the paper and state main characterization conjecture on \(LS_+\) perfect graphs. In Section 3 the authors characterize \(f_s\) (full-support perfection) in the family of the graphs built from a minimally imperfect graph and additional node. The validity of the conjecture on \(f_s\) perfect graphs is proved in Section 4. In Section 5, the results concerning the \(LS_+\) operator are presented and Section 6 is devoted to the conclusions and some further results.



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