• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Online Node- and Edge-Deletion Problems with Advice
  • Contributor: Chen, Li-Hsuan; Hung, Ling-Ju; Lotze, Henri; Rossmanith, Peter
  • Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021
  • Published in: Algorithmica, 83 (2021) 9, Seite 2719-2753
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1007/s00453-021-00840-9
  • ISSN: 0178-4617; 1432-0541
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  • Description: AbstractIn online edge- and node-deletion problems the input arrives node by node and an algorithm has to delete nodes or edges in order to keep the input graph in a given graph class $$\Pi $$ Π at all times. We consider only hereditary properties $$\Pi $$ Π , for which optimal online algorithms exist and which can be characterized by a set of forbidden subgraphs $${{\mathcal{F}}}$$ F and analyze the advice complexity of getting an optimal solution. We give almost tight bounds on the Delayed Connected$${{\mathcal{F}}}$$ F -Node-Deletion Problem, where all graphs of the family $${\mathcal{F}}$$ F have to be connected and almost tight lower and upper bounds for the Delayed$$H$$ H -Node-Deletion Problem, where there is one forbidden induced subgraph H that may be connected or not. For the Delayed$$H$$ H -Node-Deletion Problem the advice complexity is basically an easy function of the size of the biggest component in H. Additionally, we give tight bounds on the Delayed Connected$${\mathcal{F}}$$ F -Edge-Deletion Problem, where we have an arbitrary number of forbidden connected graphs. For the latter result we present an algorithm that computes the advice complexity directly from $${\mathcal{F}}$$ F . We give a separate analysis for the Delayed Connected$$H$$ H -Edge-Deletion Problem, which is less general but admits a bound that is easier to compute.