Paper by Erik D. Demaine

Reference:
Erik D. Demaine, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, and Dimitrios M. Thilikos, “Exponential Speedup of Fixed Parameter Algorithms on K3,3-minor-free or K5-minor-free Graphs”, Technical Report MIT-LCS-TR-838, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 18, 2002.

Abstract:
We present a fixed parameter algorithm that constructively solves the k-dominating set problem on graphs excluding one of the K5 or K3,3 as a minor in time O(36 √34 k nO(1)). In fact, we present our algorithm for any H-minor-free graph where H is a single-crossing graph (can be drawn on the plane with at most one crossing) and obtain the algorithm for K3,3(K5)-minor-free graphs as a special case. As a consequence, we extend our results to several other problems such as vertex cover, edge dominating set, independent set, clique-transversal set, kernels in digraphs, feedback vertex set and a series of vertex removal problems. Our work generalizes and extends the recent result of exponential speedup in designing fixed-parameter algorithms on planar graphs due to Alber et al. to other (non-planar) classes of graphs.

Length:
The paper is 22 pages.

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