Tree-decompositions of small pathwidth

  • Authors:
  • Jan Arne Telle

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics - Structural decompositions, width parameters, and graph labelings (DAS 5)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Motivated by the desire to speed up dynamic programming algorithms for graphs of bounded treewidth, we initiate a study of the tradeoff between width and pathwidth of tree-decompositions. We therefore investigate the catwidth parameter catw(G) which is the minimum width of any tree-decomposition (T,X) of a graph G when the pathwidth pw(T) of the tree T is 1. The catwidth parameter lies between the treewidth and the pathwidth of the graph, tw(G)=