Polynomial-time approximation scheme for minimum k-cut in planar and minor-free graphs

DOI10.1137/1.9781611975482.65zbMATH Open1431.68146arXiv1811.04052OpenAlexW2900306427MaRDI QIDQ5236249FDOQ5236249

Authors: MohammadHossein Bateni, Alireza Farhadi, Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi 

Publication date: 15 October 2019

Published in: Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The $k$-cut problem asks, given a connected graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, to find a minimum-weight set of edges whose removal splits $G$ into $k$ connected components. We give the first polynomial-time algorithm with approximation factor $2-epsilon$ (with constant $epsilon>0$) for the $k$-cut problem in planar and minor-free graphs. Applying more complex techniques, we further improve our method and give a polynomial-time approximation scheme for the $k$-cut problem in both planar and minor-free graphs. Despite persistent effort, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first improvement for the $k$-cut problem over standard approximation factor of $2$ in any major class of graphs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04052

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph algorithms (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C85) Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science (68R10) Analysis of algorithms (68W40) Approximation algorithms (68W25) Connectivity (05C40)

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