Meta-kernelization with structural parameters

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Authors

GANIAN Robert SZEIDER Stefan SLIVOVSKY Friedrich

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Journal of Computer and System Sciences
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Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Web https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0022000015000914
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcss.2015.08.003
Keywords Boolean-width; Clique-width; Kernelization; Modular decomposition; Monadic second-order logic; Parameterized complexity; Rank-width
Description Kernelization is a polynomial-time algorithm that reduces an instance of a parameterized problem to a decision-equivalent instance, the kernel, whose size is bounded by a function of the parameter. In this paper we present meta-theorems that provide polynomial kernels for large classes of graph problems parameterized by a structural parameter of the input graph. Let be an arbitrary but fixed class of graphs of bounded rank-width (or, equivalently, of bounded clique-width). We define the -cover number of a graph to be the smallest number of modules its vertex set can be partitioned into, such that each module induces a subgraph that belongs to . We show that each decision problem on graphs which is expressible in Monadic Second Order (MSO) logic has a polynomial kernel with a linear number of vertices when parameterized by the -cover number. We provide similar results for MSO expressible optimization and modulo-counting problems.
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