Even Faster Exact Bandwidth

  • Authors:
  • Marek Cygan;Marcin Pilipczuk

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Warsaw;University of Warsaw

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We deal with exact algorithms for Bandwidth, a long studied NP-hard problem. For a long time nothing better than the trivial O*(n!)1 exhaustive search was known. In 2000, Feige and Kilian [Feige 2000] came up with a O*(10n)-time and polynomial space algorithm. In this article we present a new algorithm that solves Bandwidth in O*(5n) time and O*(2n) space. Then, we take a closer look and introduce a major modification that makes it run in O(4.83n) time with a cost of a O*(4n) space complexity. This modification allowed us to perform the Measure & Conquer analysis for the time complexity which was not used for graph layout problems before.