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FPT Approximation Using Treewidth: Capacitated Vertex Cover, Target Set Selection and Vector Dominating Set

Authors Huairui Chu, Bingkai Lin

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Huairui Chu
  • Nanjing University, China
Bingkai Lin
  • Nanjing University, China

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Huairui Chu and Bingkai Lin. FPT Approximation Using Treewidth: Capacitated Vertex Cover, Target Set Selection and Vector Dominating Set. In 34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 283, pp. 19:1-19:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.19

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Treewidth is a useful tool in designing graph algorithms. Although many NP-hard graph problems can be solved in linear time when the input graphs have small treewidth, there are problems which remain hard on graphs of bounded treewidth. In this paper, we consider three vertex selection problems that are W[1]-hard when parameterized by the treewidth of the input graph, namely the capacitated vertex cover problem, the target set selection problem and the vector dominating set problem. We provide two new methods to obtain FPT approximation algorithms for these problems. For the capacitated vertex cover problem and the vector dominating set problem, we obtain (1+o(1))-approximation FPT algorithms. For the target set selection problem, we give an FPT algorithm providing a tradeoff between its running time and the approximation ratio.

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  • Theory of computation → Fixed parameter tractability
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  • FPT approximation algorithm
  • Treewidth
  • Capacitated vertex cover
  • Target set selection
  • Vector dominating set

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