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In the (Vertex) k -Way Cut problem, input is an undirected graph G, an integer s, and the goal is to find a subset S of edges (vertices) of size at most s, such that \(G-S\) has at least k connected components. Downey et al. [Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci. 2003] showed that k -Way Cut is W[1]-hard parameterized by k. However, Kawarabayashi and Thorup [FOCS 2011] showed that the problem is fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) in general graphs with respect to the parameter s and provided a \({\mathcal {O}} (s^{s^{{\mathcal {O}} (s)}} n^2) \) time algorithm, where n denotes the number of vertices in G. The best-known algorithm for this problem runs in time \( s^{{\mathcal {O}} (s)} n^{{\mathcal {O}} (1)}\) given by Lokshtanov et al. [ACM Tran. of Algo. 2021]. On the other hand, Vertex k -Way Cut is W[1]-hard with respect to either of the parameters, k or s or \(k+s\). These algorithmic results motivate us to look at the problems on special classes of graphs.
In this paper, we consider the (Vertex) k -Way Cut problem on subclasses of chordal graphs and obtain the following results.
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We first give a sub-exponential FPT algorithm for k -Way Cut running in time \( 2^{{\mathcal {O}} (\sqrt{s} \log s)} n^{{\mathcal {O}} (1)}\) on chordal graphs.
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It is “known" that Vertex k -Way Cut is W[1]-hard on chordal graphs, in fact on split graphs, parameterized by \(k+s\). We complement this hardness result by designing polynomial-time algorithms for Vertex k -Way Cut on interval graphs, circular-arc graphs and permutation graphs.
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Jana, S., Saha, S., Sahu, A., Saurabh, S., Verma, S. (2023). Partitioning Subclasses of Chordal Graphs with Few Deletions. In: Mavronicolas, M. (eds) Algorithms and Complexity. CIAC 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13898. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30448-4_21
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