Finding, Hitting and Packing Cycles in Subexponential Time on Unit Disk Graphs

Fedor V. Fomin, Daniel Lokshtanov, Fahad Panolan, Saket Saurabh, Meirav Zehavi

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Abstract

We give algorithms with running time 2O(klogk)·nO(1) for the following problems. Given an n-vertex unit disk graph G and an integer k, decide whether G containsa path on exactly/at least k vertices,a cycle on exactly k vertices,a cycle on at least k vertices,a feedback vertex set of size at most k, anda set of k pairwise vertex-disjoint cycles. For the first three problems, no subexponential time parameterized algorithms were previously known. For the remaining two problems, our algorithms significantly outperform the previously best known parameterized algorithms that run in time 2O(k0.75logk)·nO(1). Our algorithms are based on a new kind of tree decompositions of unit disk graphs where the separators can have size up to kO ( 1 ) and there exists a solution that crosses every separator at most O(k) times. The running times of our algorithms are optimal up to the log k factor in the exponent, assuming the exponential time hypothesis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)879-911
Number of pages33
JournalDiscrete and Computational Geometry
Volume62
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2019

Keywords

  • Cycle packing
  • Feedback vertex set
  • Longest cycle
  • Longest path
  • Parameterized complexity
  • Unit disk graph
  • Unit square graph

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Geometry and Topology
  • Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

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