TY - JOUR
T1 - Parameterized Complexity of (A, ℓ) -Path Packing
AU - Belmonte, Rémy
AU - Hanaka, Tesshu
AU - Kanzaki, Masaaki
AU - Kiyomi, Masashi
AU - Kobayashi, Yasuaki
AU - Kobayashi, Yusuke
AU - Lampis, Michael
AU - Ono, Hirotaka
AU - Otachi, Yota
N1 - Funding Information:
Partially supported by PRC CNRS JSPS Project PARAGA, and by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP17H01698, JP18H04091, JP18H05291, JP18K11157, JP18K11168, JP18K11169, JP19K21537, JP20K11692, JP20K19742. A preliminary version appeared in the proceedings of the 31st International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA 2020), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12126 (2020) 43–55.
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© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - Given a graph G= (V, E) , A⊆ V, and integers k and ℓ, the (A, ℓ) -Path Packing problem asks to find k vertex-disjoint paths of length exactly ℓ that have endpoints in A and internal points in V\ A. We study the parameterized complexity of this problem with parameters |A|, ℓ, k, treewidth, pathwidth, and their combinations. We present sharp complexity contrasts with respect to these parameters. Among other results, we show that the problem is polynomial-time solvable when ℓ≤ 3 , while it is NP-complete for constant ℓ≥ 4. We also show that the problem is W[1]-hard parameterized by pathwidth+ | A| , while it is fixed-parameter tractable parameterized by treewidth+ ℓ. Additionally, we study a variant called Short A-Path Packing that asks to find k vertex-disjoint paths of length at mostℓ. We show that all our positive results on the exact-length version can be translated to this version and show the hardness of the cases where |A| or ℓ is a constant.
AB - Given a graph G= (V, E) , A⊆ V, and integers k and ℓ, the (A, ℓ) -Path Packing problem asks to find k vertex-disjoint paths of length exactly ℓ that have endpoints in A and internal points in V\ A. We study the parameterized complexity of this problem with parameters |A|, ℓ, k, treewidth, pathwidth, and their combinations. We present sharp complexity contrasts with respect to these parameters. Among other results, we show that the problem is polynomial-time solvable when ℓ≤ 3 , while it is NP-complete for constant ℓ≥ 4. We also show that the problem is W[1]-hard parameterized by pathwidth+ | A| , while it is fixed-parameter tractable parameterized by treewidth+ ℓ. Additionally, we study a variant called Short A-Path Packing that asks to find k vertex-disjoint paths of length at mostℓ. We show that all our positive results on the exact-length version can be translated to this version and show the hardness of the cases where |A| or ℓ is a constant.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00453-021-00875-y
DO - 10.1007/s00453-021-00875-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85117121393
VL - 84
SP - 871
EP - 895
JO - Algorithmica
JF - Algorithmica
SN - 0178-4617
IS - 4
ER -