A Quartic Kernel for Pathwidth-One Vertex Deletion
A Quartic Kernel for Pathwidth-One Vertex Deletion
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用于路径宽度一个顶点删除的四次核
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2010
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通讯作者:
Yngve Villanger
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Geevarghese Philip;Venkatesh Raman;Yngve Villanger
The pathwidth of a graph is a measure of how path-like the graph is. Given a graph G and an integer k, the problem of finding whether there exist at most k vertices in G whose deletion results in a graph of pathwidth at most one is NP-complete. We initiate the study of the parameterized complexity of this problem, parameterized by k. We show that the problem has a quartic vertex-kernel: We show that, given an input instance (G = (V, E), k); |V| = n, we can construct, in polynomial time, an instance (G′, k′) such that (i) (G, k) is a YES instance if and only if (G′, k′) is a YES instance, (ii) G′ has O(k4) vertices, and (iii) k′ ≤ k. We also give a fixed parameter tractable (FPT) algorithm for the problem that runs in O(7kk ċ n2) time.