@InProceedings{filtser:LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.47, author = {Filtser, Arnold}, title = {{Scattering and Sparse Partitions, and Their Applications}}, booktitle = {47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020)}, pages = {47:1--47:20}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-138-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {168}, editor = {Czumaj, Artur and Dawar, Anuj and Merelli, Emanuela}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.47}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-124547}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.47}, annote = {Keywords: Scattering partitions, sparse partitions, sparse covers, Steiner point removal, Universal Steiner tree, Universal TSP} }