TY - GEN
T1 - Large-treewidth graph decompositions and applications
AU - Chekuri, Chandra
AU - Chuzhoy, Julia
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Treewidth is a graph parameter that plays a fundamental role in several structural and algorithmic results. We study the problem of decomposing a given graph G into nodedisjoint subgraphs, where each subgraph has sufficiently large treewidth. We prove two theorems on the tradeoff between the number of the desired subgraphs h, and the desired lower bound r on the treewidth of each subgraph. The theorems assert that, given a graph G with treewidth k, a decomposition with parameters h; r is feasible whenever hr2 ≤ k=poly log(k), or h3r ≤ k=poly log(k) holds. We then show a framework for using these theorems to bypass the well-known Grid-Minor Theorem of Robertson and Seymour in some applications. In particular, this leads to substantially improved parameters in some Erdos-Pósa-type results, and faster algorithms for some fixed-parameter tractable problems.
AB - Treewidth is a graph parameter that plays a fundamental role in several structural and algorithmic results. We study the problem of decomposing a given graph G into nodedisjoint subgraphs, where each subgraph has sufficiently large treewidth. We prove two theorems on the tradeoff between the number of the desired subgraphs h, and the desired lower bound r on the treewidth of each subgraph. The theorems assert that, given a graph G with treewidth k, a decomposition with parameters h; r is feasible whenever hr2 ≤ k=poly log(k), or h3r ≤ k=poly log(k) holds. We then show a framework for using these theorems to bypass the well-known Grid-Minor Theorem of Robertson and Seymour in some applications. In particular, this leads to substantially improved parameters in some Erdos-Pósa-type results, and faster algorithms for some fixed-parameter tractable problems.
KW - Erdos-pósa theorems
KW - Fixed parameter tractability
KW - Graph decomposition
KW - Grid minor theorem
KW - Treewidth
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U2 - 10.1145/2488608.2488645
DO - 10.1145/2488608.2488645
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84879835446
SN - 9781450320290
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
SP - 291
EP - 300
BT - STOC 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
T2 - 45th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC 2013
Y2 - 1 June 2013 through 4 June 2013
ER -