Exact Algorithms for Treewidth and Minimum Fill-In

  • Authors:
  • Fedor V. Fomin;Dieter Kratsch;Ioan Todinca;Yngve Villanger

  • Affiliations:
  • fomin@ii.uib.no and yngvev@ii.uib.no;kratsch@univ-metz.fr;Ioan.Todinca@univ-orleans.fr;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We show that the treewidth and the minimum fill-in of an $n$-vertex graph can be computed in time $\mathcal{O}(1.8899^n)$. Our results are based on combinatorial proofs that an $n$-vertex graph has $\mathcal{O}(1.7087^n)$ minimal separators and $\mathcal{O}(1.8135^n)$ potential maximal cliques. We also show that for the class of asteroidal triple-free graphs the running time of our algorithms can be reduced to $\mathcal{O}(1.4142^n)$.