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On Small-Depth Tree Augmentations

Data Structures and Algorithms 2021-11-02 v1

Abstract

We study the Weighted Tree Augmentation Problem for general link costs. We show that the integrality gap of the ODD-LP relaxation for the (weighted) Tree Augmentation Problem for a kk-level tree instance is at most 212k12 - \frac{1}{2^{k-1}}. For 2- and 3-level trees, these ratios are 32\frac32 and 74\frac74 respectively. Our proofs are constructive and yield polynomial-time approximation algorithms with matching guarantees.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.00148,
  title  = {On Small-Depth Tree Augmentations},
  author = {Ojas Parekh and R. Ravi and Michael Zlatin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.00148},
  year   = {2021}
}
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