In this short note, we show that cutting cycles of rods is fixed-parameter tractable by reducing the problem to computing a feedback vertex set in a mixed graph.
@article{arxiv.2004.03693,
title = {Cutting cycles of rods in space is FPT},
author = {Mitchell Jones},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.03693},
year = {2020}
}