Discrete Mathematics Group

Eun Jung Kim (김은정), New algorithm for multiway cut guided by strong min-max duality
2019-01-04 16:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Seoul) | Room B232, IBS (기초과학연구원)
Problems such as Vertex Cover and Multiway Cut have been well-studied in parameterized complexity. Cygan et al. 2011 drastically improved the running time of several problems including Multiway Cut and Almost 2SAT by employing LP-guided branching and aiming for FPT algorithms parameterized above LP lower bounds. Since then, LP-guided branching has been studied in depth and established as a powerful technique for parameterized algorithms design.
In this talk, we make a brief overview of LP-guided branching technique and introduce the latest results whose parameterization is above even stronger lower bounds, namely μ(I)=2LP(I)-IP(dual-I). Here, LP(I) is the value of an optimal fractional solution and IP(dual-I) is the value of an optimal integral dual solution. Tutte-Berge formula for Maximum Matching (or equivalently Edmonds-Gallai decomposition) and its generalization Mader’s min-max formula are exploited to this end. As a result, we obtain an algorithm running in time 4k-μ(I) for multiway cut and its generalizations, where k is the budget for a solution.
This talk is based on a joint work with Yoichi Iwata and Yuichi Yoshida from NII.

Joonkyung Lee (이준경), Sidorenko’s conjecture for blow-ups
2019-01-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Room B232, IBS (기초과학연구원)
A celebrated conjecture of Sidorenko and Erdős–Simonovits states that, for all bipartite graphs H, quasirandom graphs contain asymptotically the minimum number of copies of H taken over all graphs with the same order and edge density. This conjecture has attracted considerable interest over the last decade and is now known to hold for a broad range of bipartite graphs, with the overall trend saying that a graph satisfies the conjecture if it can be built from simple building blocks such as trees in a certain recursive fashion.
Our contribution here, which goes beyond this paradigm, is to show that the conjecture holds for any bipartite graph H with bipartition A∪B where the number of vertices in B of degree k satisfies a certain divisibility condition for each k. As a corollary, we have that for every bipartite graph H with bipartition A∪B, there is a positive integer p such that the blow-up HAp formed by taking p vertex-disjoint copies of H and gluing all copies of A along corresponding vertices satisfies the conjecture. Joint work with David Conlon.

Hong Liu, Polynomial Schur’s Theorem
2018-12-13 17:00 - 18:00 | Room B109, IBS (기초과학연구원)
I will discuss the Ramsey problem for {x,y,z:x+y=p(z)} for polynomials p over ℤ. This is joint work with Peter Pach and Csaba Sandor.

Tony Huynh, A tight Erdős-Pósa function for planar minors
2018-12-10 17:00 - 18:00 | Room B109, IBS (기초과학연구원)
Let H be a planar graph. By a classical result of Robertson and Seymour, there is a function f(k) such that for all k and all graphs G, either G contains k vertex-disjoint subgraphs each containing H as a minor, or there is a subset X of at most f(k) vertices such that G−X has no H-minor. We prove that this remains true with f(k)=ck log k for some constant c depending on H. This bound is best possible, up to the value of c, and improves upon a recent bound of Chekuri and Chuzhoy. The proof is constructive and yields the first polynomial-time O(log 𝖮𝖯𝖳)-approximation algorithm for packing subgraphs containing an H-minor.
This is joint work with Wouter Cames van Batenburg, Gwenaël Joret, and Jean-Florent Raymond.
