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Improved Complexity Bound of Vertex Cover for Low degree Graph

Data Structures and Algorithms 2015-03-17 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we use a new method to decrease the parameterized complexity bound for finding the minimum vertex cover of connected max-degree-3 undirected graphs. The key operation of this method is reduction of the size of a particular subset of edges which we introduce in this paper and is called as "real-cycle" subset. Using "real-cycle" reductions alone we compute a complexity bound O(1.15855k)O(1.15855^k) where kk is size of the optimal vertex cover. Combined with other techniques, the complexity bound can be further improved to be O(1.1504k)O(1.1504^k). This is currently the best complexity bound.

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@article{arxiv.1010.2833,
  title  = {Improved Complexity Bound of Vertex Cover for Low degree Graph},
  author = {Weiya Yue and John Franco and Weiwei Cao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.2833},
  year   = {2015}
}

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17 pages

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