Structural Parameterization of Locating-Dominating Set and Test Cover

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Hauptverfasser: Chakraborty, Dipayan, Foucaud, Florent, Majumdar, Diptapriyo, Tale, Prafullkumar
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author Chakraborty, Dipayan
Foucaud, Florent
Majumdar, Diptapriyo
Tale, Prafullkumar
author_facet Chakraborty, Dipayan
Foucaud, Florent
Majumdar, Diptapriyo
Tale, Prafullkumar
contents We investigate structural parameterizations of two identification problems: LOCATING-DOMINATING SET and TEST COVER. In the first problem, an input is a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and an integer $k$, and one asks if there is a subset $S$ of $k$ vertices such that any two distinct vertices not in $S$ are dominated by distinct subsets of $S$. In the second problem, an input is a set of items $U$, a set of subsets $\mathcal{F}$ of $U$ called $tests$ and an integer $k$, and one asks if there is a set $S$ of at most $k$ tests such that any two items belong to distinct subsets of tests of $S$. These two problems are "identification" analogues of DOMINATING SET and SET COVER, respectively. Chakraborty et al. [ISAAC 2024] proved that both the problems admit conditional double-exponential lower bounds and matching algorithms when parameterized by treewidth of the input graph. We continue this line of investigation and consider parameters larger than treewidth, like vertex cover number and feedback edge set number. We design a nontrivial dynamic programming scheme to solve TEST COVER in "slightly super-exponential" time $2^{O(|U|\log |U|)}(|U|+|\mathcal{F}|)^{O(1)}$ in the number $|U|$ of items and LOCATING-DOMINATING SET in time $2^{O(\textsf{vc} \log \textsf{vc})} \cdot n^{O(1)}$, where $\textsf{vc}$ is the vertex cover number and $n$ is the order of the graph. This shows that the lower bound results with respect to treewidth from Chakraborty et al. [ISAAC 2024] cannot be extended to vertex cover number. We also show that, parameterized by feedback edge set number, LOCATING-DOMINATING SET admits a linear kernel thereby answering an open question in [Cappelle et al., LAGOS 2021]. Finally, we show that neither LOCATING-DOMINATING SET nor TEST COVER is likely to admit a compression algorithm returning an input with a subquadratic number of bits, unless $\textsf{NP} \subseteq \textsf{coNP}/poly$.
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spellingShingle Structural Parameterization of Locating-Dominating Set and Test Cover
Chakraborty, Dipayan
Foucaud, Florent
Majumdar, Diptapriyo
Tale, Prafullkumar
Data Structures and Algorithms
We investigate structural parameterizations of two identification problems: LOCATING-DOMINATING SET and TEST COVER. In the first problem, an input is a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and an integer $k$, and one asks if there is a subset $S$ of $k$ vertices such that any two distinct vertices not in $S$ are dominated by distinct subsets of $S$. In the second problem, an input is a set of items $U$, a set of subsets $\mathcal{F}$ of $U$ called $tests$ and an integer $k$, and one asks if there is a set $S$ of at most $k$ tests such that any two items belong to distinct subsets of tests of $S$. These two problems are "identification" analogues of DOMINATING SET and SET COVER, respectively. Chakraborty et al. [ISAAC 2024] proved that both the problems admit conditional double-exponential lower bounds and matching algorithms when parameterized by treewidth of the input graph. We continue this line of investigation and consider parameters larger than treewidth, like vertex cover number and feedback edge set number. We design a nontrivial dynamic programming scheme to solve TEST COVER in "slightly super-exponential" time $2^{O(|U|\log |U|)}(|U|+|\mathcal{F}|)^{O(1)}$ in the number $|U|$ of items and LOCATING-DOMINATING SET in time $2^{O(\textsf{vc} \log \textsf{vc})} \cdot n^{O(1)}$, where $\textsf{vc}$ is the vertex cover number and $n$ is the order of the graph. This shows that the lower bound results with respect to treewidth from Chakraborty et al. [ISAAC 2024] cannot be extended to vertex cover number. We also show that, parameterized by feedback edge set number, LOCATING-DOMINATING SET admits a linear kernel thereby answering an open question in [Cappelle et al., LAGOS 2021]. Finally, we show that neither LOCATING-DOMINATING SET nor TEST COVER is likely to admit a compression algorithm returning an input with a subquadratic number of bits, unless $\textsf{NP} \subseteq \textsf{coNP}/poly$.
title Structural Parameterization of Locating-Dominating Set and Test Cover
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17948