Authors: ZhiZhong Chen Guohui Lin Lusheng Wang
Publish Date: 2010/01/21
Volume: 60, Issue: 4, Pages: 969-986
Abstract
We present an approximation algorithm for the problem of finding a minimum set of edges in a given graph G whose removal from G leaves a graph in which each connected component is a path It achieves a ratio of frac 107 and runs in On 15 time where n is the number of vertices in the input graph The previously best approximation algorithm for this problem achieves a ratio of 2 and runs in On 2 time
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