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| author | Baligács, Júlia MacManus, Joseph |
| author_facet | Baligács, Júlia MacManus, Joseph |
| contents | We study a generalization of the well-known disjoint paths problem which we call the metric Menger problem, denoted MM(r,k), where one is given two subsets of a graph and must decide whether they can be connected by $k$ paths of pairwise distance at least $r$. We prove that this problem is NP-complete for every $r\geq 3$ and $k\geq 2$ by giving a reduction from 3SAT. This resolves a conjecture recently stated by Georgakopoulos and Papasoglu. On the other hand, we show that the problem is in XP when parameterised by treewidth and maximum degree by observing that it is `locally checkable'. In the case $r\leq 3$, we prove that it suffices to parameterise by treewidth. We also state some open questions relating to this work. |
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| spellingShingle | The metric Menger problem Baligács, Júlia MacManus, Joseph Combinatorics Computational Complexity Metric Geometry 68R10 We study a generalization of the well-known disjoint paths problem which we call the metric Menger problem, denoted MM(r,k), where one is given two subsets of a graph and must decide whether they can be connected by $k$ paths of pairwise distance at least $r$. We prove that this problem is NP-complete for every $r\geq 3$ and $k\geq 2$ by giving a reduction from 3SAT. This resolves a conjecture recently stated by Georgakopoulos and Papasoglu. On the other hand, we show that the problem is in XP when parameterised by treewidth and maximum degree by observing that it is `locally checkable'. In the case $r\leq 3$, we prove that it suffices to parameterise by treewidth. We also state some open questions relating to this work. |
| title | The metric Menger problem |
| topic | Combinatorics Computational Complexity Metric Geometry 68R10 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05630 |