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    Constant ratio fixed-parameter approximation of the edge multicut problem

    Marx, D. and Razgon, Igor (2009) Constant ratio fixed-parameter approximation of the edge multicut problem. In: Fiat, A. and Sanders, P. (eds.) Algorithms. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag, pp. 647-658. ISBN 9783642041280.

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    Abstract

    The input of the Edge Multicut problem consists of an undirected graph G and pairs of terminals {s 1,t 1}, ..., {s m ,t m }; the task is to remove a minimum set of edges such that s i and t i are disconnected for every 1 ≤ i ≤ m. The parameterized complexity of the problem, parameterized by the maximum number k of edges that are allowed to be removed, is currently open. The main result of the paper is a parameterized 2-approximation algorithm: in time f(k)·n O(1), we can either find a solution of size 2k or correctly conclude that there is no solution of size k. The proposed algorithm is based on a transformation of the Edge Multicut problem into a variant of parameterized Max-2-SAT problem, where the parameter is related to the number of clauses that are not satisfied. It follows from previous results that the latter problem can be 2-approximated in a fixed-parameter time; on the other hand, we show here that it is W[1]-hard. Thus the additional contribution of the present paper is introducing the first natural W[1]-hard problem that is constant-ratio fixed-parameter approximable.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
    Depositing User: Sarah Hall
    Date Deposited: 01 Aug 2013 15:34
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:34
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/7921

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