A Faster Parameterized Algorithm for Pseudoforest Deletion

Authors Hans L. Bodlaender, Hirotaka Ono, Yota Otachi



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Hans L. Bodlaender
Hirotaka Ono
Yota Otachi

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Hans L. Bodlaender, Hirotaka Ono, and Yota Otachi. A Faster Parameterized Algorithm for Pseudoforest Deletion. In 11th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 63, pp. 7:1-7:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2016.7

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A pseudoforest is a graph where each connected component contains at most one cycle, or alternatively, a graph that can be turned into a forest by removing at most one edge from each connected component. In this paper, we show that the following problem can be solved in O(3^k n k^{O(1)}) time: given a graph G and an integer k, can we delete at most k vertices from G such that we obtain a pseudoforest? The result improves upon an earlier result by Philip et al. [MFCS 2015] who gave a (nonlinear) 7.56^k n^{O(1)}-time algorithm both in the exponential factor depending on k as well as in the polynomial factor depending on n.
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  • pseudoforest deletion
  • graph class
  • width parameter
  • parameterized complexity

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