An Improved Algorithm for Finding Tree Decompositions of Small Width

  • Authors:
  • Ljubomir Perkovic;Bruce Reed

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WG '99 Proceedings of the 25th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We present a modification of Bodlaender's linear time algorithm that, for constant k, determines whether an input graph G = (V, E) has treewidth k and, if so, constructs a tree decomposition of G of width at most k. Our algorithm has the following additional feature: if G has treewidth greater than k then a subgraph G′ of G of treewidth greater than k is returned along with a tree decomposition of G′ of width at most 2k. A consequence is that the fundamental disjoint rooted paths problem can now be solved in O(n2) time. This is the primary motivation for this paper.