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Approximating minimum cost connectivity problems

Authors Guy Kortsarz, Zeev Nutov



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Guy Kortsarz
Zeev Nutov

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Guy Kortsarz and Zeev Nutov. Approximating minimum cost connectivity problems. In Parameterized complexity and approximation algorithms. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 9511, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)
https://doi.org/10.4230/DagSemProc.09511.4

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We survey approximation algorithms of connectivity problems. The survey presented describing various techniques. In the talk the following techniques and results are presented. 1)Outconnectivity: Its well known that there exists a polynomial time algorithm to solve the problems of finding an edge k-outconnected from r subgraph [EDMONDS] and a vertex k-outconnectivity subgraph from r [Frank-Tardos] . We show how to use this to obtain a ratio 2 approximation for the min cost edge k-connectivity problem. 2)The critical cycle theorem of Mader: We state a fundamental theorem of Mader and use it to provide a 1+(k-1)/n ratio approximation for the min cost vertex k-connected subgraph, in the metric case. We also show results for the min power vertex k-connected problem using this lemma. We show that the min power is equivalent to the min-cost case with respect to approximation. 3)Laminarity and uncrossing: We use the well known laminarity of a BFS solution and show a simple new proof due to Ravi et al for Jain's 2 approximation for Steiner network.
Keywords
  • Connectivity
  • laminar
  • uncrossing
  • Mader's Theorem
  • power problems

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