Approximation schemes for Metric Bisection and partitioning

  • Authors:
  • W. Fernandez de la Vega;Marek Karpinski;Claire Kenyon

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay;University of Bonn, Bonn;LIX, Ecole Polytechnique

  • Venue:
  • SODA '04 Proceedings of the fifteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We design polynomial time approximation schemes (PTASs) for Metric BISECTION, i.e. dividing a given finite metric space into two halves so as to minimize or maximize the sum of distances across the cut. The method extends to partitioning problems with arbitrary size constraints. Our approximation schemes depend on a hybrid placement method and on a new application of linearized quadratic programs.