A linear time algorithm for the minimum Weighted Feedback Vertex Set on diamonds

  • Authors:
  • F. Carrabs;R. Cerulli;M. Gentili;G. Parlato

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, Università di Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, Università di Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, Università di Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni, Università di Salerno, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Given an undirected and vertex weighted graph G, the Weighted Feedback Vertex Problem (WFVP) consists in finding a subset F@?V of vertices of minimum weight such that each cycle in G contains at least one vertex in F. The WFVP on general graphs is known to be NP-hard. In this paper we introduce a new class of graphs, namely the diamond graphs, and give a linear time algorithm to solve WFVP on it.