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- From: schweika@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Andreas Schweikardt)
- Subject: dynamic and static separators
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.152621.18490@tom.rz.uni-passau.de>
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- Organization: University of Passau, Germany
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 15:26:21 GMT
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- Hi,
-
- I have a problem (and want it solved ;-)):
-
- Does anyone know the relationship between the two versions of
- graph separators ?
-
- Keywords: separator, vertex separator, pathwidth, node search number
-
- Thomas Lengauer described in his article "Black-White Pebbles and
- Graph Separation" (Acta Informatica 16, 465-475 (1981))
- the well-known "static" version of graph separators and he introduced
- a "dynamic" version.
-
- Can anyone give me a hint to the relation between the "dynamic" and the
- "static" separator ?
-
- The static version:
-
- An undirected graph G=(V,E) with n vertices has a f(n) separator iff
- V can be separated in three disjunct sets A, B and S, A and B have
- no edges in common, (1/3)n <= #A <= (2/3)n, (1/3)n <= #B <= (2/3).
- S contains no more than f(n) vertices. A and B have also a
- f(n) separator (recursively applied on A and B).
-
-
- The dynamic version:
-
- I give here T. Lengauer's definition:
- "... The above definition of a separator is a 'static' one. We will here
- define a corresponding(*) 'dynamic' notion of a separator. The definition
- will be in terms of a pebble game on undirected graphs called the Vertex
- Separator Game (VSG).
- The VSG is played on undirected graphs G according to the following rules.
-
- (i) All vertices start out pebble-free.
- (ii) All vertices end up pebbled.
- (iii) A move consists of placing a pebble on a pebble-free vertex.
-
- The Vertex Cut after the i-th move consists of all vertices that are pebble-
- free and adjacent to a pebbled vertex after the i-th move. Let S be a
- strategy for VSG on G [G is the graph], i.e. a permutation of the vertices
- of G that represents a sequence of moves (applications of rule (iii)) in
- VSG. ..."
- (*) Well, that's my problem "corresponding".
-
- And the vertex cut of a strategy is the maximum vertex cut after every move.
- The dynamic or vertex separator is the minumum vertex cut of all strategies
- for the graph.
- Related graph theoretic topics are the node search number and pathwidth
- of an undirected graph.
- That is node search number -1 = pathwidth = dynamic separator.
-
- Is it possible to transform a "static" to a "dynamic" separator and
- vice versa ?
-
- Please send any ideas or hints to my address. Thanks !
- Email-address: schweika@trillian.fmi.uni-passau.de
-
- Thank you
- Andreas Schweikardt
- --
- Andreas Schweikardt * Ingling 17 * 4784 Schardenberg * Austria
- trillian@fmi.uni-passau.de
-