A strengthened analysis of an algorithm for Dominating Set in planar graphs

  • Authors:
  • Torben Hagerup

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Alber et al. presented an algorithm for computing a dominating set of size at most k, if one exists, in an undirected planar n-vertex graph and bounded its execution time by O(8^kn). Here it is shown that the algorithm performs better than claimed by its authors. More significantly, if k@?n/19, even a much simplified version of the algorithm runs in O(7^kn) time.