Parameterized approximability of the disjoint cycle problem

  • Authors:

  • Martin Grohe;Magdalena Grüber

  • Affiliations:

  • Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany;Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICALP'07 Proceedings of the 34th international conference on Automata, Languages and Programming
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We give an fpt approximation algorithm for the directed vertex disjoint cycle problem. Given a directed graph G with n vertices and a positive integer k, the algorithm constructs a family of at least k/ρ(k) disjoint cycles of G if the graph G has a family of at least k disjoint cycles (and otherwise may still produce a solution, or just report failure). Here ρ is a computable function such that k/ρ(k) is nondecreasing and unbounded. The running time of our algorithm is polynomial. The directed vertex disjoint cycle problem is hard for the parameterized complexity class W[1], and to the best of our knowledge our algorithm is the first fpt approximation algorithm for a natural W[1]-hard problem.