Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nutov, Zeev
Format: Preprint
Published: 2022
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09373
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • In minimum power network design problems we are given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with edge costs $\{c_e:e \in E\}$. The goal is to find an edge set $F\subseteq E$ that satisfies a prescribed property of minimum power $p_c(F)=\sum_{v \in V} \max \{c_e: e \in F \mbox{ is incident to } v\}$. In the Min-Power $k$ Edge Disjoint $st$-Paths problem $F$ should contains $k$ edge disjoint $st$-paths. The problem admits a $k$-approximation algorithm, and it was an open question whether it admits approximation ratio sublinear in $k$ even for unit costs. We give a $2\sqrt{2k}$-approximation algorithm for general costs.