Bicriteria approximation for minimum dilation graph augmentation

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Auteurs principaux: Buchin, Kevin, Buchin, Maike, Gudmundsson, Joachim, Wong, Sampson
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author Buchin, Kevin
Buchin, Maike
Gudmundsson, Joachim
Wong, Sampson
author_facet Buchin, Kevin
Buchin, Maike
Gudmundsson, Joachim
Wong, Sampson
contents Spanner constructions focus on the initial design of the network. However, networks tend to improve over time. In this paper, we focus on the improvement step. Given a graph and a budget $k$, which $k$ edges do we add to the graph to minimise its dilation? Gudmundsson and Wong [TALG'22] provided the first positive result for this problem, but their approximation factor is linear in $k$. Our main result is a $(2 \sqrt[r]{2} \ k^{1/r},2r)$-bicriteria approximation that runs in $O(n^3 \log n)$ time, for all $r \geq 1$. In other words, if $t^*$ is the minimum dilation after adding any $k$ edges to a graph, then our algorithm adds $O(k^{1+1/r})$ edges to the graph to obtain a dilation of $2rt^*$. Moreover, our analysis of the algorithm is tight under the Erdős girth conjecture.
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spellingShingle Bicriteria approximation for minimum dilation graph augmentation
Buchin, Kevin
Buchin, Maike
Gudmundsson, Joachim
Wong, Sampson
Computational Geometry
Spanner constructions focus on the initial design of the network. However, networks tend to improve over time. In this paper, we focus on the improvement step. Given a graph and a budget $k$, which $k$ edges do we add to the graph to minimise its dilation? Gudmundsson and Wong [TALG'22] provided the first positive result for this problem, but their approximation factor is linear in $k$. Our main result is a $(2 \sqrt[r]{2} \ k^{1/r},2r)$-bicriteria approximation that runs in $O(n^3 \log n)$ time, for all $r \geq 1$. In other words, if $t^*$ is the minimum dilation after adding any $k$ edges to a graph, then our algorithm adds $O(k^{1+1/r})$ edges to the graph to obtain a dilation of $2rt^*$. Moreover, our analysis of the algorithm is tight under the Erdős girth conjecture.
title Bicriteria approximation for minimum dilation graph augmentation
topic Computational Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04614