Are there any good digraph width measures?
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Parameterized and exact computation, IPEC 2010 |
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| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17493-3_14 |
| Field | Informatics |
| Keywords | directed graphs; width measures; monadic second order logic; directed graph minors |
| Description | Several different measures for digraph width have appeared in the last few years. However, none of them shares all the ``nice'' properties of treewidth: First, being algorithmically useful - say, admitting polynomial-time algorithms for all MSO1-definable problems on digraphs of bounded width. And, second, having nice structural properties such as being monotone under taking subdigraphs and some form of arc contractions. Our main result then is that any reasonable algorithmically useful and structurally nice digraph measure cannot be substantially different from the treewidth of the underlying undirected graph |
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