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Spotting Trees with Few Leaves

Björklund, Andreas LU ; Kamat, Vikram ; Kowalik, Lukasz and Zehavi, Meirav (2015) International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming 9134. p.243-255
Abstract
We show two results related to the Hamiltonicity and k -Path algorithms in undirected graphs by Björklund [FOCS’10], and Björklund et al., [arXiv’10]. First, we demonstrate that the technique used can be generalized to finding some k-vertex tree with l leaves in an n-vertex undirected graph in O∗(1.657^k2^{l/2}) time. It can be applied as a subroutine to solve the k -Internal Spanning Tree (k-IST) problem in O∗(min(3.455^k,1.946^n)) time using polynomial space, improving upon previous algorithms for this problem. In particular, for the first time, we break the natural barrier of O∗(2^n). Second, we show that the iterated random bipartition employed by the algorithm can be improved whenever the host graph admits a vertex coloring with few... (More)
We show two results related to the Hamiltonicity and k -Path algorithms in undirected graphs by Björklund [FOCS’10], and Björklund et al., [arXiv’10]. First, we demonstrate that the technique used can be generalized to finding some k-vertex tree with l leaves in an n-vertex undirected graph in O∗(1.657^k2^{l/2}) time. It can be applied as a subroutine to solve the k -Internal Spanning Tree (k-IST) problem in O∗(min(3.455^k,1.946^n)) time using polynomial space, improving upon previous algorithms for this problem. In particular, for the first time, we break the natural barrier of O∗(2^n). Second, we show that the iterated random bipartition employed by the algorithm can be improved whenever the host graph admits a vertex coloring with few colors; it can be an ordinary proper vertex coloring, a fractional vertex coloring, or a vector coloring. In effect, we show improved bounds for k-Path and Hamiltonicity in any graph of maximum degree Δ=4,…,12 or with vector chromatic number at most 8. (Less)
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Automata, Languages, and Programming
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Haldorsson, Magnus. M. ; Iwama, Kazou ; Kobayashi, Naoki and Speckmann, Bettina
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9134
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243 - 255
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Springer
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International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming
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2015-07-08
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0302-9743
1611-3349
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978-3-662-47672-7
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10.1007/978-3-662-47672-7_20
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Exact algorithms
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English
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  abstract     = {{We show two results related to the Hamiltonicity and k -Path algorithms in undirected graphs by Björklund [FOCS’10], and Björklund et al., [arXiv’10]. First, we demonstrate that the technique used can be generalized to finding some k-vertex tree with l leaves in an n-vertex undirected graph in O∗(1.657^k2^{l/2}) time. It can be applied as a subroutine to solve the k -Internal Spanning Tree (k-IST) problem in O∗(min(3.455^k,1.946^n)) time using polynomial space, improving upon previous algorithms for this problem. In particular, for the first time, we break the natural barrier of O∗(2^n). Second, we show that the iterated random bipartition employed by the algorithm can be improved whenever the host graph admits a vertex coloring with few colors; it can be an ordinary proper vertex coloring, a fractional vertex coloring, or a vector coloring. In effect, we show improved bounds for k-Path and Hamiltonicity in any graph of maximum degree Δ=4,…,12 or with vector chromatic number at most 8.}},
  author       = {{Björklund, Andreas and Kamat, Vikram and Kowalik, Lukasz and Zehavi, Meirav}},
  booktitle    = {{Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Automata, Languages, and Programming}},
  editor       = {{Haldorsson, Magnus. M. and Iwama, Kazou and Kobayashi, Naoki and Speckmann, Bettina}},
  isbn         = {{978-3-662-47672-7}},
  issn         = {{0302-9743}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{243--255}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  title        = {{Spotting Trees with Few Leaves}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47672-7_20}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/978-3-662-47672-7_20}},
  volume       = {{9134}},
  year         = {{2015}},
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