Narrow sieves for parameterized paths and packings

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Abstract: We present randomized algorithms for some well-studied, hard combinatorial problems: the k-path problem, the p-packing of q-sets problem, and the q-dimensional p-matching problem. Our algorithms solve these problems with high probability in time exponential only in the parameter (k, p, q) and using polynomial space; the constant bases of the exponentials are significantly smaller than in previous works. For example, for the k-path problem the improvement is from 2 to 1.66. We also show how to detect if a d-regular graph admits an edge coloring with d colors in time within a polynomial factor of O(2^{(d-1)n/2}). Our techniques build upon and generalize some recently published ideas by I. Koutis (ICALP 2009), R. Williams (IPL 2009), and A. Bj"orklund (STACS 2010, FOCS 2010).



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