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Close Relatives (Of Feedback Vertex Set), Revisited

Authors Hugo Jacob, Thomas Bellitto, Oscar Defrain, Marcin Pilipczuk

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  • feedback vertex set
  • treewidth
  • cliquewidth

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Abstract

At IPEC 2020, Bergougnoux, Bonnet, Brettell, and Kwon (Close Relatives of Feedback Vertex Set Without Single-Exponential Algorithms Parameterized by Treewidth, IPEC 2020, LIPIcs vol. 180, pp. 3:1-3:17) showed that a number of problems related to the classic Feedback Vertex Set (FVS) problem do not admit a 2^{o(k log k)} ⋅ n^{𝒪(1)}-time algorithm on graphs of treewidth at most k, assuming the Exponential Time Hypothesis. This contrasts with the 3^{k} ⋅ k^{𝒪(1)} ⋅ n-time algorithm for FVS using the Cut&Count technique. 
During their live talk at IPEC 2020, Bergougnoux et al. posed a number of open questions, which we answer in this work.  
- Subset Even Cycle Transversal, Subset Odd Cycle Transversal, Subset Feedback Vertex Set can be solved in time 2^{𝒪(k log k)} ⋅ n in graphs of treewidth at most k. This matches a lower bound for Even Cycle Transversal of Bergougnoux et al. and improves the polynomial factor in some of their upper bounds. 
- Subset Feedback Vertex Set and Node Multiway Cut can be solved in time 2^{𝒪(k log k)} ⋅ n, if the input graph is given as a cliquewidth expression of size n and width k. 
- Odd Cycle Transversal can be solved in time 4^k ⋅ k^{𝒪(1)} ⋅ n if the input graph is given as a cliquewidth expression of size n and width k. Furthermore, the existence of a constant ε > 0 and an algorithm performing this task in time (4-ε)^k ⋅ n^{𝒪(1)} would contradict the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis.  A common theme of the first two algorithmic results is to represent connectivity properties of the current graph in a state of a dynamic programming algorithm as an auxiliary forest with 𝒪(k) nodes. This results in a 2^{𝒪(k log k)} bound on the number of states for one node of the tree decomposition or cliquewidth expression and allows to compare two states in k^{𝒪(1)} time, resulting in linear time dependency on the size of the graph or the input cliquewidth expression.

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Hugo Jacob, Thomas Bellitto, Oscar Defrain, and Marcin Pilipczuk. Close Relatives (Of Feedback Vertex Set), Revisited. In 16th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 214, pp. 21:1-21:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2021.21

Author Details

Hugo Jacob
  • ENS Paris-Saclay, France
Thomas Bellitto
  • Sorbonne Université, CNRS, LIP6 UMR 7606, Paris, France
Oscar Defrain
  • Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, LIS UMR 7020, Marseille, France
Marcin Pilipczuk
  • Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Poland

Funding

This research is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme Grant Agreement 714704. This research was conducted while Hugo Jacob was doing a research internship at the University of Warsaw.

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