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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
An Efficient Partitioning Oracle for Bounded-Treewidth Graphs
Authors : Alan Edelman, Avinatan Hassidim, Huy N. Nguyen, Krzysztof Onak
Published in: Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Partitioning oracles were introduced by Hassidim
et al.
(FOCS 2009) as a generic tool for constant-time algorithms. For any
ε
> 0, a partitioning oracle provides query access to a fixed partition of the input bounded-degree minor-free graph, in which every component has size poly(1/
ε
), and the number of edges removed is at most
εn
, where
n
is the number of vertices in the graph.
However, the oracle of Hassidim
et al.
makes an exponential number of queries to the input graph to answer every query about the partition. In this paper, we construct an efficient partitioning oracle for graphs with constant treewidth. The oracle makes only
O
(poly(1/
ε
)) queries to the input graph to answer each query about the partition.
Examples of bounded-treewidth graph classes include
k
-outerplanar graphs for fixed
k
, series-parallel graphs, cactus graphs, and pseudoforests. Our oracle yields poly(1/
ε
)-time property testing algorithms for membership in these classes of graphs. Another application of the oracle is a poly(1/
ε
)-time algorithm that approximates the maximum matching size, the minimum vertex cover size, and the minimum dominating set size up to an additive
εn
in graphs with bounded treewidth. Finally, the oracle can be used to test in poly(1/
ε
) time whether the input bounded-treewidth graph is
k
-colorable or perfect.