Maximum Matching Width: New Characterizations and a Fast Algorithm for Dominating Set

Authors Jisu Jeong, Sigve Hortemo Sæther, Jan Arne Telle



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Jisu Jeong
Sigve Hortemo Sæther
Jan Arne Telle

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Jisu Jeong, Sigve Hortemo Sæther, and Jan Arne Telle. Maximum Matching Width: New Characterizations and a Fast Algorithm for Dominating Set. In 10th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 43, pp. 212-223, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2015.212

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We give alternative definitions for maximum matching width, e.g., a graph G has mmw(G) <= k if and only if it is a subgraph of a chordal graph H and for every maximal clique X of H there exists A,B,C \subseteq X with A \cup B \cup C=X and |A|,|B|,|C| <= k such that any subset of X that is a minimal separator of H is a subset of either A, B or C.  Treewidth and branchwidth have alternative definitions through intersections of subtrees, where treewidth focuses on nodes and branchwidth focuses on edges. We show that mm-width combines both aspects, focusing on nodes and on edges. Based on this we prove that given a graph G and a branch decomposition of mm-width k we can solve Dominating Set in time O^*(8^k), thereby beating O^*(3^{tw(G)}) whenever tw(G) > log_3(8) * k ~ 1.893  k. Note that mmw(G) <= tw(G)+1 <= 3 mmw(G) and these inequalities are tight. Given only the graph G and using the best known  algorithms to find decompositions, maximum matching width will be better for solving Dominating Set whenever tw(G) >  1.549 * mmw(G).

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  • FPT algorithms
  • treewidth
  • dominating set

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