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Slim Tree-Cut Width

Authors Robert Ganian , Viktoriia Korchemna

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  • Theory of computation → Parameterized complexity and exact algorithms
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  • tree-cut width
  • structural parameters
  • graph immersions

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Abstract

Tree-cut width is a parameter that has been introduced as an attempt to obtain an analogue of treewidth for edge cuts. Unfortunately, in spite of its desirable structural properties, it turned out that tree-cut width falls short as an edge-cut based alternative to treewidth in algorithmic aspects. This has led to the very recent introduction of a simple edge-based parameter called edge-cut width [WG 2022], which has precisely the algorithmic applications one would expect from an analogue of treewidth for edge cuts, but does not have the desired structural properties.
In this paper, we study a variant of tree-cut width obtained by changing the threshold for so-called thin nodes in tree-cut decompositions from 2 to 1. We show that this "slim tree-cut width" satisfies all the requirements of an edge-cut based analogue of treewidth, both structural and algorithmic, while being less restrictive than edge-cut width. Our results also include an alternative characterization of slim tree-cut width via an easy-to-use spanning-tree decomposition akin to the one used for edge-cut width, a characterization of slim tree-cut width in terms of forbidden immersions as well as an approximation algorithm for computing the parameter.

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Robert Ganian and Viktoriia Korchemna. Slim Tree-Cut Width. In 17th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 249, pp. 15:1-15:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2022.15

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Robert Ganian
  • Algorithms and Complexity Group, TU Wien, Austria
Viktoriia Korchemna
  • Algorithms and Complexity Group, TU Wien, Austria

Funding

Robert Ganian and Viktoriia Korchemna acknowledge support by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, project Y1329).

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