Résumé
A graph G is signed if each edge is assigned "+" or "-". A signed graph is balanced if there is a bipartition of its vertex set such that an edge has sign "--" if and only if its endpoints are in different parts. The Edwards-Erdos bound states that every signed graph with n vertices and m edges has a balanced subgraph with at least [Please download the PDF to view the mathematical expression] edges. In the SIGNED MAX CUT ABOVE TIGHT LOWER BOUND (SIGNED MAX CUT ATLB) problem, given a signed graph G and a parameter k, the question is whether G has a balanced subgraph with at least [Please download the PDF to view the mathematical expression] edges. This problem generalizes MAX CUT ABOVE TIGHT LOWER BOUND, for which a kernel with O([k.sup.5]) vertices was given by Crowston et al. [ICALP 2012, Algorithmica 2015]. Crowston et al. [TCS 2013] improved this result by providing a kernel with O([k.sup.3]) vertices for the more general SIGNED MAX CUT ATLB problem. In this article we are interested in improving the size of the kernels for SIGNED MAX CUT ATLB on restricted graph classes for which the problem remains hard. For two integers r,l > 0, a graph G is an (r, ())-graph if V(G) can be partitioned into r independent sets and l cliques. Building on the techniques of Crowston et al. [TCS 2013], for any r,l > 0 we provide a kernel with O((r + l)[k.sup.2]) vertices on (r, l)-graphs, and a simple linear kernel on subclasses of split graphs for which we prove that the problem is still NP-hard.