VOCAL 2024
Abstract Submission

61. Color-avoiding connected spanning subgraphs with minimum number of edges

Invited abstract in session TC-3: Approximation algorithms for graph problems, stream Approximation algorithms.

Thursday, 12:00 - 13:30
Room: C 104

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Kitti Varga
HUN-REN–ELTE Egerváry Research Group

Abstract

We call a (not necessarily properly) edge-colored graph edge-color-avoiding connected if after the removal of edges of any single color, the graph remains connected. For vertex-colored graphs, similar definitions of color-avoiding connectivity can be given.

In this talk, we investigate the problem of determining the maximum number of edges that can be removed from either an edge- or a vertex-colored, color-avoiding connected graph so that it remains color-avoiding connected. First, we prove that this problem is NP-hard, and then, we give a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for it. To analyze the approximation factor of this algorithm, we determine the minimum number of edges of color-avoiding connected graphs on a given number of vertices and with a given number of colors. Furthermore, we also consider a generalization of edge-color-avoiding connectivity to matroids.

This is a joint work with József Pintér.

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Status: accepted


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