New parameterized algorithms for the edge dominating set problem

  • Authors:
  • Mingyu Xiao;Ton Kloks;Sheung-Hung Poon

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China;Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • MFCS'11 Proceedings of the 36th international conference on Mathematical foundations of computer science
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

An edge dominating set of a graph G = (V, E) is a subset M ⊆ E of edges in the graph such that each edge in E - M is incident with at least one edge in M. In an instance of the parameterized edge dominating set problem we are given a graph G = (V, E) and an integer k and we are asked to decide whether G has an edge dominating set of size at most k. In this paper we show that the parameterized edge dominating set problemcan be solved in O*(2.3147k) time and polynomial space. We also show that this problem can be reduced to a quadratic kernel with O(k3) edges.