The structure and number of global roundings of a graph

  • Authors:
  • Tetsuo Asano;Naoki Katoh;Hisao Tamaki;Takeshi Tokuyama

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsunokuchi, Japan;Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan;School of Science and Technology, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan;Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Aramaki, Aza-Aoba 09, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science - Special papers from: COCOON 2003
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Given a connected weighted graph G = (V,E), we consider a hypergraph HG = (V, PG) corresponding to the set of all shortest paths in G. For a given real assignment a on V satisfying 0≤a(v)≤1, a global rounding α with respect to HG is a binary assignment satisfying that |Σv∈Fa(v)-α(v)| F ∈ PG. We conjecture that there are at most |V| + 1 global roundings for HG, and also the set of global roundings is an affine independent set. We give several positive evidences for the conjecture.