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A Unified Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Feedback Vertex Set on Graphs of Bounded Mim-Width

Authors Lars Jaffke, O-joung Kwon, Jan Arne Telle

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  • graph width parameters
  • graph classes
  • feedback vertex set
  • leaf powers

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Abstract

We give a first polynomial-time algorithm for (Weighted) Feedback Vertex Set on graphs of bounded maximum induced matching width (mim-width). Explicitly, given a branch decomposition of mim-width w, we give an n^{O(w)}-time algorithm that solves Feedback Vertex Set. This provides a unified algorithm for many well-known classes, such as Interval graphs and Permutation graphs, and furthermore, it gives the first polynomial-time algorithms for other classes of bounded mim-width, such as Circular Permutation and Circular k-Trapezoid graphs for fixed k. In all these classes the decomposition is computable in polynomial time, as shown by Belmonte and Vatshelle [Theor. Comput. Sci. 2013].
We show that powers of graphs of tree-width w-1 or path-width w and powers of graphs of clique-width w have mim-width at most w. These results extensively provide new classes of bounded mim-width. We prove a slight strengthening of the first statement which implies that, surprisingly, Leaf Power graphs which are of importance in the field of phylogenetic studies have mim-width at most 1. Given a tree decomposition of width w-1, a path decomposition of width w, or a clique-width w-expression of a graph G, one can for any value of k find a mim-width decomposition of its k-power in polynomial time, and apply our algorithm to solve Feedback Vertex Set on the k-power in time n^{O(w)}.
In contrast to Feedback Vertex Set, we show that Hamiltonian Cycle is NP-complete even on graphs of linear mim-width 1, which further hints at the expressive power of the mim-width parameter.

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Lars Jaffke, O-joung Kwon, and Jan Arne Telle. A Unified Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Feedback Vertex Set on Graphs of Bounded Mim-Width. In 35th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 96, pp. 42:1-42:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.42

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Lars Jaffke
O-joung Kwon
Jan Arne Telle

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