Dynamic approximate vertex cover and maximum matching

Krzysztof Onak*, Ronitt Rubinfeld

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We consider the problem of maintaining a large matching or a small vertex cover in a dynamically changing graph. Each update to the graph is either an edge deletion or an edge insertion. We give the first randomized data structure that simultaneously achieves a constant approximation factor and handles a sequence of k updates in k·polylog(n) time. Previous data structures require a polynomial amount of computation per update. The starting point of our construction is a distributed algorithm of Parnas and Ron (Theor. Comput. Sci. 2007), which they designed for their sublinear-time approximation algorithm for the vertex cover size. This leads us to wonder whether there are other connections between sublinear algorithms and dynamic data structures.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProperty Testing - Current Research and Surveys
Pages341-345
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
EventMini-Workshop on Property Testing - Beijing, China
Duration: 8 Jan 201010 Jan 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6390 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceMini-Workshop on Property Testing
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period8/01/1010/01/10

Keywords

  • dynamic algorithms
  • maximum matching
  • vertex cover

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