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# Benjamin Bumpus, Directed branch-width: A directed analogue of tree-width

## May 21 Friday @ 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM KST

Zoom ID: 934 3222 0374 (ibsdimag)

### Speaker

Many problems that are NP-hard in general become tractable on structurally recursive’ graph classes. For example, consider classes of bounded tree- or clique-width. Since the 1990s, many directed analogues of tree-width have been proposed. However, many natural problems (e.g. directed HamiltonPath and MaxCut) remain intractable on such digraph classes of bounded width’.

In this talk, I will introduce a new tree-width analogue for digraphs called directed branch-width which allows us to define digraph classes for which many problems (including directed HamiltonPath and MaxCut)  become linear-time solvable. Furthermore, via the definition of directed branch-width, I will obtain a generalisation to digraphs of Gurski and Wanke’s characterization of graph classes of bounded tree-width in terms of their line graphs.

This is joint work with Kitty Meeks and William Pettersson.

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May 21 Friday
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5:00 PM - 6:00 PM KST
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Zoom ID: 934 3222 0374 (ibsdimag)
기초과학연구원 수리및계산과학연구단 이산수학그룹
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IBS Discrete Mathematics Group (DIMAG)
Institute for Basic Science (IBS)
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