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  • Approximated Vertex Cover for Graphs with Perfect Matchings

    Tomokazu IMAMURA  Kazuo IWAMA  Tatsuie TSUKIJI  

     
    INVITED PAPER

      Vol:
    E89-D No:8
      Page(s):
    2405-2410

    Chen and Kanj considered the VERTEX COVER problem for graphs with perfect matchings (VC-PM). They showed that: (i) There is a reduction from general VERTEX COVER to VC-PM, which guarantees that if one can achieve an approximation factor of less than two for VC-PM, then one can do so for general VERTEX COVER as well. (ii) There is an algorithm for VC-PM whose approximation factor is given as 1.069+0.069 where is the average degree of the given graph. In this paper we improve (ii). Namely we give a new VC-PM algorithm which greatly outperforms the above one and its approximation factor is roughly . Our algorithm also works for graphs with "large" matchings, although its approximation factor is degenerated.