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Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for Connected Vertex Cover in Unit Disk Graph

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Connected Vertex Cover Problem (CVC) is an \(\mathcal NP\)-hard problem. The currently best known approximation algorithm for CVC has performance ration 2. This paper gives the first Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for CVC in Unit Disk Graph.

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Zhang, Z., Gao, X., Wu, W. (2008). Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for Connected Vertex Cover in Unit Disk Graph. In: Yang, B., Du, DZ., Wang, C.A. (eds) Combinatorial Optimization and Applications. COCOA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5165. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85097-7_24

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