Finding odd cycle transversals

  • Authors:
  • Bruce Reed;Kaleigh Smith;Adrian Vetta

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, McGill University, Room 301, McConnell Engineering Building, 3480 University, Montreal, Québec, Canada H3A 2A7;School of Computer Science, McGill University, Room 318, McConnell Engineering Building, 3480 University, Montreal, Québec, Canada H3A 2A7;Department of Mathematics and Statistics and School of Computer Science, McGill University, Room 1118, Burnside Building, 805 Sherbrooke, Montreal, Québec, Canada H3A 2K6

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We present an O(mn) algorithm to determine whether a graph G with m edges and n vertices has an odd cycle transversal of order at most k, for any fixed k. We also obtain an algorithm that determines, in the same time, whether a graph has a half integral packing of odd cycles of weight k.