Vertex sparsification in trees

Gramoz Goranci, Harald Räcke

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Abstract

Given an unweighted tree T = (V,E) with terminals K ⊂ V, we show how to obtain a 2-quality vertex flow and cut sparsifier H with VH = K. We prove that our result is essentially tight by providing a 2− o(1) lower-bound on the quality of any cut sparsifier for stars. In addition we give improved results for quasi-bipartite graphs. First, we show how to obtain a 2-quality flow sparsifier with VH = K for such graphs. We then consider the other extreme and construct exact sparsifiers of size O(2k), when the input graph is unweighted.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApproximation and Online Algorithms - 14th International Workshop, WAOA 2016, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsMonaldo Mastrolilli, Klaus Jansen
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages103-115
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783319517407
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event14th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2016 - Aarhus, Denmark
Duration: 25 Aug 201626 Aug 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10138 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2016
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityAarhus
Period25/08/1626/08/16

Keywords

  • Graph sparsification
  • Trees
  • Vertex flow sparsifiers

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