Fixed Parameter Algorithms for PLANAR DOMINATING SET and Related Problems

  • Authors:
  • Jochen Alber;Hans L. Bodlaender;Henning Fernau;Rolf Niedermeier

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SWAT '00 Proceedings of the 7th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We present an algorithm for computing the domination number of a planar graph that uses O(c√kn) time, where k is the domination number of the given planar input graph and c = 36√34. To obtain this result, we show that the treewidth of a planar graph with domination number k is O(√k), and that such a tree decomposition can be found in O(√kn) time. The same technique can be used to show that the DISK DIMENSION problem (find a minimum set of faces that cover all vertices of a given plane graph) can be solved in O(c1√k n) time for c1 = 26√34. Similar results can be obtained for some variants of DOMINATING SET, e.g., INDEPENDENT DOMINATING SET.