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A Constant-Factor Approximation for Weighted Bond Cover

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The Weighted F-Vertex Deletion for a class F of graphs asks, weighted graph G, for a minimum weight vertex set S such that G − S ∈ F. The case when F is minor-closed and excludes some graph as a minor has received particular attention but a constant-factor approximation remained elusive for Weighted F-Vertex Deletion. Only three cases of minor-closed F are known to admit constant-factor approximations, namely Vertex Cover, Feedback Vertex Set and Diamond Hitting Set. We study the problem for the class F of θc-minor-free graphs, under the equivalent setting of the Weighted c-Bond Cover problem, and present a constant-factor approximation algorithm using the primal-dual method. For this, we leverage a structure theorem implicit in [Joret et al., SIDMA'14] which states the following: any graph G containing a θc-minor-model either contains a large two-terminal protrusion, or contains a constant-size θc-minor-model, or a collection of pairwise disjoint constant-sized connected sets that can be contracted simultaneously to yield a dense graph. In the first case, we tame the graph by replacing the protrusion with a special-purpose weighted gadget. For the second and third case, we provide a weighting scheme which guarantees a local approximation ratio. Besides making an important step in the quest of (dis)proving a constant-factor approximation for Weighted F-Vertex Deletion, our result may be useful as a template for algorithms for other minor-closed families.
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hal-03390188 , version 1 (21-10-2021)

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Eun Jung Kim, Euiwoong Lee, Dimitrios M. Thilikos. A Constant-Factor Approximation for Weighted Bond Cover. APPROX/RANDOM 2021 - Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques, Aug 2021, Seattle, United States. pp.7:1--7:14, ⟨10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2021.7⟩. ⟨hal-03390188⟩
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