A polynomial kernel for feedback arc set on bipartite tournaments

  • Authors:
  • Pranabendu Misra;Venkatesh Raman;M. S. Ramanujan;Saket Saurabh

  • Affiliations:
  • Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India;The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India;The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India;The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC'11 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In the k-Feedback Arc/Vertex Set problem we are given a directed graph D and a positive integer k and the objective is to check whether it is possible to delete at most k arcs/vertices from D to make it acyclic. Dom et al.[CIAC, 2006] initiated a study of the Feedback Arc Set problem on bipartite tournaments (k-FASBT) in the realm of parameterized complexity. They showed that k-FASBT can be solved in time O(3.373kn6) on bipartite tournaments having n vertices. However, until now there was no known polynomial sized problem kernel for k-FASBT. In this paper we obtain a cubic vertex kernel for k-FASBT. This completes the kernelization picture for the Feedback Arc/Vertex Set problem on tournaments and bipartite tournaments, as for all other problems polynomial kernels were known before. We obtain our kernel using a non-trivial application of "independent modules" which could be of independent interest.