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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2019.14
Routing Symmetric Demands in Directed Minor-Free Graphs with Constant Congestion

Authors: Timothy Carpenter, Ario Salmasi, and Anastasios Sidiropoulos

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 145, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2019)

Abstract
The problem of routing in graphs using node-disjoint paths has received a lot of attention and a polylogarithmic approximation algorithm with constant congestion is known for undirected graphs [Chuzhoy and Li 2016] and [Chekuri and Ene 2013]. However, the problem is hard to approximate within polynomial factors on directed graphs, for any constant congestion [Chuzhoy, Kim and Li 2016]. Recently, [Chekuri, Ene and Pilipczuk 2016] have obtained a polylogarithmic approximation with constant congestion on directed planar graphs, for the special case of symmetric demands. We extend their result by obtaining a polylogarithmic approximation with constant congestion on arbitrary directed minor-free graphs, for the case of symmetric demands.
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Timothy Carpenter, Ario Salmasi, and Anastasios Sidiropoulos. Routing Symmetric Demands in Directed Minor-Free Graphs with Constant Congestion. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 145, pp. 14:1-14:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{carpenter_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2019.14,
  author =	{Carpenter, Timothy and Salmasi, Ario and Sidiropoulos, Anastasios},
  title =	{{Routing Symmetric Demands in Directed Minor-Free Graphs with Constant Congestion}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2019)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-125-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{145},
  editor =	{Achlioptas, Dimitris and V\'{e}gh, L\'{a}szl\'{o} A.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2019.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-112290},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2019.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: Routing, Node-disjoint, Symmetric demands, Minor-free graphs}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2016.16
Constant-Factor Approximations for Asymmetric TSP on Nearly-Embeddable Graphs

Authors: Dániel Marx, Ario Salmasi, and Anastasios Sidiropoulos

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 60, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2016)

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In the Asymmetric Traveling Salesperson Problem (ATSP) the goal is to find a closed walk of minimum cost in a directed graph visiting every vertex. We consider the approximability of ATSP on topologically restricted graphs. It has been shown by Oveis Gharan and Saberi [SODA, 2011] that there exists polynomial-time constant-factor approximations on planar graphs and more generally graphs of constant orientable genus. This result was extended to non-orientable genus by Erickson and Sidiropoulos [SoCG, 2014]. We show that for any class of nearly-embeddable graphs, ATSP admits a polynomial-time constant-factor approximation. More precisely, we show that for any fixed non-negative k, there exist positive alpha and beta, such that ATSP on n-vertex k-nearly-embeddable graphs admits an alpha-approximation in time O(n^beta). The class of k-nearly-embeddable graphs contains graphs with at most k apices, k vortices of width at most k, and an underlying surface of either orientable or non-orientable genus at most k. Prior to our work, even the case of graphs with a single apex was open. Our algorithm combines tools from rounding the Held-Karp LP via thin trees with dynamic programming. We complement our upper bounds by showing that solving ATSP exactly on graphs of pathwidth k (and hence on k-nearly embeddable graphs) requires time n^{Omega(k)}, assuming the Exponential-Time Hypothesis (ETH). This is surprising in light of the fact that both TSP on undirected graphs and Minimum Cost Hamiltonian Cycle on directed graphs are FPT parameterized by treewidth.
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Dániel Marx, Ario Salmasi, and Anastasios Sidiropoulos. Constant-Factor Approximations for Asymmetric TSP on Nearly-Embeddable Graphs. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 60, pp. 16:1-16:54, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{marx_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2016.16,
  author =	{Marx, D\'{a}niel and Salmasi, Ario and Sidiropoulos, Anastasios},
  title =	{{Constant-Factor Approximations for Asymmetric TSP on Nearly-Embeddable Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2016)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:54},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-018-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{60},
  editor =	{Jansen, Klaus and Mathieu, Claire and Rolim, Jos\'{e} D. P. and Umans, Chris},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2016.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-66391},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2016.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: asymmetric TSP, approximation algorithms, nearly-embeddable graphs, Held-Karp LP, exponential time hypothesis}
}
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