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Approximation Algorithms for Forests Augmentation Ensuring Two Disjoint Paths of Bounded Length

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Given a forest F = (V,E) and a positive integer D, we consider the problem of finding a minimum number of new edges E′ such that in the augmented graph H = (V,EE′) any pair of vertices can be connected by two vertex-disjoint paths of length ≤ D. We show that this problem and some of its variants are NP-hard, and we present approximation algorithms with worst-case bounds 6 and 4.

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Chepoi, V., Estellon, B., Vaxès, Y. (2005). Approximation Algorithms for Forests Augmentation Ensuring Two Disjoint Paths of Bounded Length. In: Dehne, F., López-Ortiz, A., Sack, JR. (eds) Algorithms and Data Structures. WADS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3608. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11534273_25

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