A single-exponential fixed-parameter algorithm for distance-hereditary vertex deletion

Warning

This publication doesn't include Faculty of Arts. It includes Faculty of Informatics. Official publication website can be found on muni.cz.
Authors

EIBEN Eduard GANIAN Robert KWON O-joung

Year of publication 2018
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Journal of Computer and System Sciences
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcss.2018.05.005
Keywords parameterized complexity; distance hereditary graphs
Description Vertex deletion problems ask whether it is possible to delete at most k vertices from a graph so that the resulting graph belongs to a specified graph class. Over the past years, the parameterized complexity of vertex deletion to a plethora of graph classes has been systematically researched. Here we present the first single-exponential fixed-parameter tractable algorithm for vertex deletion to distance-hereditary graphs, a well-studied graph class which is particularly important in the context of vertex deletion due to its connection to the graph parameter rank-width. We complement our result with matching asymptotic lower bounds based on the exponential time hypothesis. As an application of our algorithm, we show that a vertex deletion set to distance-hereditary graphs can be used as a parameter which allows single-exponential fixed-parameter tractable algorithms for classical NP-hard problems.
Related projects:

You are running an old browser version. We recommend updating your browser to its latest version.