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== Abstract ==
Traditionally fixed-parameter algorithms (FPT) and approximation algorithms have been considered as different approaches for dealing with NP-hard problem. The area of fixed-parameter approximation algorithms tries to tackle problems which are intractable to both these techniques. In this talk we will start with the formal definitions of fixed-parameter approximation algorithms and give a brief survey of known positive and negative results. Then (under standard conjectures in computational complexity) we show the first fixed-parameter inapproximability results for Clique and Set Cover, which are two of the most famous fixed-parameter intractable problems. On the positive side we obtain polynomial time f(OPT)-approximation algorithms for a number of W[1]-hard problems such as Minimum Edge Cover, Directed Steiner Forest, Directed Steiner Network, etc. Finally we give a natural problem which is W[1]-hard, does not have a constant factor approximation in polynomial time but admits a constant factor FPT-approximation.
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n the deletion version of the list homomorphism problem, we are given graphs G and H, a list L(v) that is a subset of V(H) for each vertex v of G, and an integer k. The task is to decide whether there exists a subset W of V(G) of size at most k such that there is a homomorphism from G W to H respecting the lists. We show that DL-Hom(H), parameterized by k and |H|, is fixed-parameter tractable for any (P6, C6)-free bipartite graph H; already for this restricted class of graphs, the problem generalizes Vertex Cover, Odd Cycle Transversal, and Vertex Multiway Cut parameterized by the size of the cutset and the number of terminals. We conjecture that DL-Hom(H) is fixed-parameter tractable for the class of graphs H for which the list homomorphism problem (without deletions) is polynomial-time solvable; by a result of Feder, Hell and Huang (1999), a graph H belongs to this class precisely if it is a bipartite graph whose complement is a circular arc graph. We show that this conjecture is equivalent to the fixed-parameter tractability of a single fairly natural satisfiability problem, Clause Deletion Chain-SAT.
  
This is joint work with MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi and Guy Kortsarz.
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This is joint work with Laszlo Egri and Daniel Marx.

Revision as of 02:32, 25 August 2013

Title[edit]

List H-Coloring a Graph by Removing Few Vertices

Speaker[edit]

Rajesh Chitnis, University of Maryland

Abstract[edit]

n the deletion version of the list homomorphism problem, we are given graphs G and H, a list L(v) that is a subset of V(H) for each vertex v of G, and an integer k. The task is to decide whether there exists a subset W of V(G) of size at most k such that there is a homomorphism from G W to H respecting the lists. We show that DL-Hom(H), parameterized by k and |H|, is fixed-parameter tractable for any (P6, C6)-free bipartite graph H; already for this restricted class of graphs, the problem generalizes Vertex Cover, Odd Cycle Transversal, and Vertex Multiway Cut parameterized by the size of the cutset and the number of terminals. We conjecture that DL-Hom(H) is fixed-parameter tractable for the class of graphs H for which the list homomorphism problem (without deletions) is polynomial-time solvable; by a result of Feder, Hell and Huang (1999), a graph H belongs to this class precisely if it is a bipartite graph whose complement is a circular arc graph. We show that this conjecture is equivalent to the fixed-parameter tractability of a single fairly natural satisfiability problem, Clause Deletion Chain-SAT.

This is joint work with Laszlo Egri and Daniel Marx.