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Parameterized Edge Hamiltonicity
We study the parameterized complexity of the classical Edge Hamiltonian Path
problem and give several fixed-parameter tractability results. First, we settle
an open question of Demaine et al. by showing that Edge Hamiltonian Path is FPT
parameterized by vertex cover, and that it also admits a cubic kernel. We then
show fixed-parameter tractability even for a generalization of the problem to
arbitrary hypergraphs, parameterized by the size of a (supplied) hitting set.
We also consider the problem parameterized by treewidth or clique-width.
Surprisingly, we show that the problem is FPT for both of these standard
parameters, in contrast to its vertex version, which is W-hard for
clique-width. Our technique, which may be of independent interest, relies on a
structural characterization of clique-width in terms of treewidth and complete
bipartite subgraphs due to Gurski and Wanke
Complexity of Token Swapping and its Variants
In the Token Swapping problem we are given a graph with a token placed on
each vertex. Each token has exactly one destination vertex, and we try to move
all the tokens to their destinations, using the minimum number of swaps, i.e.,
operations of exchanging the tokens on two adjacent vertices. As the main
result of this paper, we show that Token Swapping is -hard parameterized
by the length of a shortest sequence of swaps. In fact, we prove that, for
any computable function , it cannot be solved in time where is the number of vertices of the input graph, unless the ETH
fails. This lower bound almost matches the trivial -time algorithm.
We also consider two generalizations of the Token Swapping, namely Colored
Token Swapping (where the tokens have different colors and tokens of the same
color are indistinguishable), and Subset Token Swapping (where each token has a
set of possible destinations). To complement the hardness result, we prove that
even the most general variant, Subset Token Swapping, is FPT in nowhere-dense
graph classes.
Finally, we consider the complexities of all three problems in very
restricted classes of graphs: graphs of bounded treewidth and diameter, stars,
cliques, and paths, trying to identify the borderlines between polynomial and
NP-hard cases.Comment: 23 pages, 7 Figure
Long Circuits and Large Euler Subgraphs
An undirected graph is Eulerian if it is connected and all its vertices are
of even degree. Similarly, a directed graph is Eulerian, if for each vertex its
in-degree is equal to its out-degree. It is well known that Eulerian graphs can
be recognized in polynomial time while the problems of finding a maximum
Eulerian subgraph or a maximum induced Eulerian subgraph are NP-hard. In this
paper, we study the parameterized complexity of the following Euler subgraph
problems:
- Large Euler Subgraph: For a given graph G and integer parameter k, does G
contain an induced Eulerian subgraph with at least k vertices?
- Long Circuit: For a given graph G and integer parameter k, does G contain
an Eulerian subgraph with at least k edges?
Our main algorithmic result is that Large Euler Subgraph is fixed parameter
tractable (FPT) on undirected graphs. We find this a bit surprising because the
problem of finding an induced Eulerian subgraph with exactly k vertices is
known to be W[1]-hard. The complexity of the problem changes drastically on
directed graphs. On directed graphs we obtained the following complexity
dichotomy: Large Euler Subgraph is NP-hard for every fixed k>3 and is solvable
in polynomial time for k<=3. For Long Circuit, we prove that the problem is FPT
on directed and undirected graphs
Computational Complexity for Physicists
These lecture notes are an informal introduction to the theory of
computational complexity and its links to quantum computing and statistical
mechanics.Comment: references updated, reprint available from
http://itp.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/~mertens/papers/complexity.shtm
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