Authors: Gruia Călinescu Cristina G Fernandes Hemanshu Kaul Alexander Zelikovsky
Publish Date: 2011/05/11
Volume: 63, Issue: 1-2, Pages: 137-157
Abstract
Consider the NPhard problem of given a simple graph G to find a seriesparallel subgraph of G with the maximum number of edges The algorithm that given a connected graph G outputs a spanning tree of G is a frac12approximation Indeed if n is the number of vertices in G any spanning tree in G has n−1 edges and any seriesparallel graph on n vertices has at most 2n−3 edges We present a frac712approximation for this problem and results showing the limits of our approach
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