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Physics and Mathematics Series</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1561-2430</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2524-2415</issn><publisher><publisher-name>The Republican Unitary Enterprise Publishing House "Belaruskaya Navuka"</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.29235/1561-2430-2025-61-4-299-306</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">vestifm-863</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>МАТЕМАТИКА</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>MATHEMATICS</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Сложность распознавания жесткости в классе (2t + 1)-регулярных графов</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>The complexity of the decision problem of toughness in the class of (2t + 1)-regular graphs</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Бенедиктович</surname><given-names>В. И.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Benediktovich</surname><given-names>V. I.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Бенедиктович Владимир Иванович – кандидат физико-математических наук, ведущий научный сотрудник</p><p>ул. Сурганова, 11, 220072, Минск </p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Vladimir I. Benediktovich – Ph. D. (Physics and Mathematics), Leading Researcher</p><p>11, Surganov Str., 220072, Minsk</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">vbened@im.bas-net.by</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Институт математики Национальной академии наук Беларуси</institution></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2025</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>06</day><month>01</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>61</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>299</fpage><lpage>306</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Бенедиктович В.И., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Бенедиктович В.И.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Benediktovich V.I.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://vestifm.belnauka.by/jour/article/view/863">https://vestifm.belnauka.by/jour/article/view/863</self-uri><abstract><p>Известно, что в общем случае проблема распознавания t-ЖЕСТКОСТИ графа является coNPполной. Кроме того, для многих подклассов графов задача распознавания t-ЖЕСТКОСТИ остается NP-трудной, в частности, в классе r-регулярных графов, где r ≥ 3t для любого целого числа t ≥ 1. Сложность распознавания t-ЖЕСТКОСТИ r-регулярных графов остается открытой, когда 2t ≤ r &lt; 3t, а когда r = 2t + 1 сложность распознавания является особенно интригующей. В последнем случае была выдвинута гипотеза, что она остается NP-трудной. В данной статье мы устанавливаем справедливость этой гипотезы.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>It is known that the decision problem of t-TOUGHNESS of a graph is coNP-complete in general. Moreover, in many subclasses of graphs, the decision problem of t-TOUGHNESS remains NP-hard, in particular, in the class of r-regular graphs, where r ≥ 3t for any integer number t ≥ 1. The complexity of the decision problem of t-TOUGHNESS for r-regular graphs remains open when 2t ≤ r &lt; 3t, and when r = 2t + 1 the complexity of the decision problem is particularly intriguing. In the latter case it has been conjectured, that it remains NP-hard. In this paper, we establish the validity of this conjecture.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>вершинный разрез графа</kwd><kwd>t-ЖЕСТКОСТЬ графа</kwd><kwd>coNP-полнота проблемы распознавания</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>vertex cut of a graph</kwd><kwd>t-toughness of a graph</kwd><kwd>coNP-completeness of the decision problem</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Bauer, D. Recognizing tough graphs is NP-hard / D. Bauer, S. L. Hakimi, E. 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