Packing Cycles and Cuts in Undirected Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Alberto Caprara;Alessandro Panconesi;Romeo Rizzi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ESA '01 Proceedings of the 9th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We study the complexity and approximability of Cut Packing and Cycle Packing. For Cycle Packing, we show that the problem is APX-hard but can be approximated within a factor of O(log n) by a simple greedy approach. Essentially the same approach achieves constant approximation for "dense" graphs. We show that both problems are NP-hard for planar graphs. For Cut Packing we show that, given a graph G the maximum cut packing is always between α(G) and 2α(G). We then derive new or improved polynomial-time algorithms for Cut Packing for special classes of graphs.