Department of Applied Mathematics & Physics, Kyoto University

Technical Report 2014-004 (September 9, 2014)

An Improved Algorithm for Parameterized Edge Dominating Set Problem
by Ken Iwaide and Hiroshi Nagamochi

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An edge dominating set of a graph G = (V, E) is a subset M of edges such that each edge in E-M is incident to at least one edge in M. In this paper, we consider the parameterized edge dominating set problem which asks us to test whether a given graph has an edge dominating set with size bounded from above by an integer k or not, and we design an O ^*(2.2351^k)-time and polynomial-space algorithm. This is an improvement over the previous best time bound of O^*(2.3147^k). We also show that a related problem: the parameterized weighted edge dominating set problem can be solved in O^*(2.2351^k) time and polynomial space.