Minimum weight feedback vertex sets in circle graphs

  • Authors:
  • Fanica Gavril

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We describe a polynomial time algorithm to find a minimum weight feedback vertex set, or equivalently, a maximum weight induced forest, in a circle graph. The circle graphs are the overlap graphs of intervals on a line.