\documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{amsmath,mathrsfs,bbm} \usepackage{amssymb} \textwidth=4.825in \overfullrule=0pt \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \noindent % % {\bf Sergio Cabello and Primo\v z Luk\v si\v c} % % \medskip \noindent % % {\bf The Complexity of Obtaining a Distance-Balanced Graph} % % \vskip 5mm \noindent % % % % An unweighted, connected graph is \emph{distance-balanced} (also called \emph{self-median}) if there exists a number $d$ such that, for any vertex $v$, the sum of the distances from $v$ to all other vertices is $d$. An unweighted connected graph is \emph{strongly distance-balanced} (also called \emph{distance-degree regular}) if there exist numbers $d_1,d_2,d_3,\dots$ such that, for any vertex $v$, there are precisely $d_k$ vertices at distance $k$ from $v$. We consider the following optimization problem: given a graph, add the minimum possible number of edges to obtain a (strongly) distance-balanced graph. We show that the problem is NP-hard for graphs of diameter three, thus answering the question posed by Jerebic et al.~[Distance-balanced graphs; \textsl{Ann. Comb.} 2008]. In contrast, we show that the problem can be solved in polynomial time for graphs of diameter 2. \end{document} .