Improved Parameterized Upper Bounds for Vertex Cover
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چکیده
This paper presents an O(1.2738 + kn)-time polynomialspace parameterized algorithm for Vertex Cover improving the previous O(1.286+kn)-time polynomial-space upper bound by Chen, Kanj, and Jia. The algorithm also improves the O(1.2745k+kn)-time exponentialspace upper bound for the problem by Chandran and Grandoni.
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