Important separators and parameterized algorithms

  • Authors:
  • D$#225/niel Marx

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut fü/r Informatik, Humboldt-Universitä/t zu Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • WG'11 Proceedings of the 37th international conference on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The notion of "important separators" and bounding the number of such separators turned out to be a very useful technique in the design of fixed-parameter tractable algorithms for multi(way) cut problems. For example, the recent breakthrough result of Chen et al.[3] on the Directed Feedback Vertex Set problem can be also explained using this notion. In my talk, I will overview combinatorial and algorithmic results that can be obtained by studying such separators.