Fixed-parameter tractability results for feedback set problems in tournaments

  • Authors:

  • Michael Dom;Jiong Guo;Falk Hüffner;Rolf Niedermeier;Anke Truss

  • Affiliations:

  • Institut für Informatik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, D-07743 Jena, Germany;Universität des Saarlandes, Campus E 1.4, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany;School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel;Institut für Informatik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, D-07743 Jena, Germany;Institut für Informatik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, D-07743 Jena, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Discrete Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Complementing recent progress on classical complexity and polynomial-time approximability of feedback set problems in (bipartite) tournaments, we extend and improve fixed-parameter tractability results for these problems. We show that Feedback Vertex Set in tournaments (FVST) is amenable to the novel iterative compression technique, and we provide a depth-bounded search tree for Feedback Arc Set in bipartite tournaments based on a new forbidden subgraph characterization. Moreover, we apply the iterative compression technique to d-Hitting Set, which generalizes Feedback Vertex Set in tournaments, and obtain improved upper bounds for the time needed to solve 4-Hitting Set and 5-Hitting Set. Using our parameterized algorithm for Feedback Vertex Set in tournaments, we also give an exact (not parameterized) algorithm for it running in O(1.709^n) time, where n is the number of input graph vertices, answering a question of Woeginger [G.J. Woeginger, Open problems around exact algorithms, Discrete Appl. Math. 156 (3) (2008) 397-405].