Maximum common edge subgraph

Given two graphs $G$ and $G'$ , the maximum common edge subgraph problem is the problem of finding a graph $H$ with as many edges as possible which is isomorphic to both a subgraph of $G$ and a subgraph of $G'$ .

The maximum common edge subgraph problem on general graphs is NP-complete as it is a generalization of subgraph isomorphism: a graph $H$ is isomorphic to a subgraph of another graph $G$ if and only if the maximum common edge subgraph of $G$ and $H$ has the same number of edges as $H$ . Unless the two inputs $G$ and $G'$ to the maximum common edge subgraph problem are required to have the same number of vertices, the problem is APX-hard.^[1]

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^ Bahiense, L.; Manic, G.; Piva, B.; de Souza, C. C. (2012), "The maximum common edge subgraph problem: A polyhedral investigation", Discrete Applied Mathematics, 160 (18): 2523–2541, doi:10.1016/j.dam.2012.01.026.

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[1] Bahiense, L.; Manic, G.; Piva, B.; de Souza, C. C. (2012), "The maximum common edge subgraph problem: A polyhedral investigation", Discrete Applied Mathematics, 160 (18): 2523–2541, doi:10.1016/j.dam.2012.01.026.

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