Minimum vertex cover in rectangle graphs

  • Authors:
  • Reuven Bar-Yehuda;Danny Hermelin;Dror Rawitz

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Technion IIT, Haifa 32000, Israel;Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany;School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We consider the Minimum Vertex Cover problem in intersection graphs of axis-parallel rectangles on the plane. We present two algorithms: The first is an EPTAS for non-crossing rectangle families, rectangle families R where R"1@?R"2 is connected for every pair of rectangles R"1,R"2@?R. This algorithm extends to intersection graphs of pseudo-disks. The second algorithm achieves a factor of (1.5+@e) in general rectangle families, for any fixed @e0, and works also for the weighted variant of the problem. Both algorithms exploit the plane properties of axis-parallel rectangles in a novel way.