A TDI System and Its Application to Approximation Algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Mao-cheng Cai;Xiaotie Deng;Wenan Zang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '98 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for tournaments to possess a min-max relation on packing and covering directed cycles, together with strongly polynomial time algorithms for the feedback vertex set problem and the cycle packing problem in this class of tournaments; the condition and the algorithms are all based on a totally dual integral (TDI) system, a theoretical framework introduced by Edmonds and Giles for establishing min-max results. As a consequence, we find a $2.5$-approximation polynomial time algorithm for the feedback vertex set problem in any tournament.