Kernelization and Parameterized Algorithms for 3-Path Vertex Cover
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چکیده
A 3-path vertex cover in a graph is a vertex subset C such that every path of three vertices contains at least one vertex from C. The parameterized 3-path vertex cover problem asks whether a graph has a 3-path vertex cover of size at most k. In this paper, we give a kernel of 5k vertices and an O(1.7485)-time polynomial-space algorithm for this problem, both new results improve previous known bounds.
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