Brief announcement: Treewidth modulator: Emergency exit for DFVS

Daniel Lokshtanov, M. S. Ramanujan, Saket Saurabh, Roohani Sharma, Meirav Zehavi

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Abstract

In the Directed Feedback Vertex Set (DFVS) problem, we are given as input a directed graph D and an integer k, and the objective is to check whether there exists a set S of at most k vertices such that F = D − S is a directed acyclic graph (DAG). Determining whether DFVS admits a polynomial kernel (parameterized by the solution size) is one of the most important open problems in parameterized complexity. In this article, we give a polynomial kernel for DFVS parameterized by the solution size plus the size of any treewidth-η modulator, for any positive integer η. We also give a polynomial kernel for the problem, which we call Vertex Deletion to treewidth-η DAG, where given as input a directed graph D and a positive integer k, the objective is to decide whether there exists a set of at most k vertices, say S, such that D − S is a DAG and the treewidth1 of D − S is at most η.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2018
EditorsChristos Kaklamanis, Daniel Marx, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Donald Sannella
PublisherSchloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing
Pages110:1--110:4
ISBN (Electronic)9783959770767
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Jul 2018
Event45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2018 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 9 Jul 201813 Jul 2018

Publication series

NameLeibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs
Volume107
ISSN (Print)1868-8969

Conference

Conference45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2018
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period9/07/1813/07/18

Keywords

  • Directed feedback vertex set
  • Polynomial kernel
  • Treewidth modulator

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software

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