Approximation of satisfactory bisection problems

Approximation of satisfactory bisection problems

The Satisfactory Bisection problem means to decide whether a given graph has a partition of its vertex set into two parts of the same cardinality such that each vertex has at least as many neighbors in its part as in the other part. A related variant of this problem, called Co-Satisfactory Bisection, requires that each vertex has at most as many neighbors in its part as in the other part. A ver...

Complexity and Approximation of Satisfactory Partition Problems

The Satisfactory Partition problem consists of deciding if a given graph has a partition of its vertex set into two nonempty parts such that each vertex has at least as many neighbors in its part as in the other part. This problem was introduced by Gerber and Kobler in 1998 and further studied by other authors but its complexity remained open until now. We prove in this paper that Satisfactory ...

A polylogarithmic approximation of the minimum bisection

A bisection of a graph with n vertices is a partition of its vertices into two sets, each of size n=2. The bisection cost is the number of edges connecting the two sets. Finding the bisection of minimum cost is NP-hard. We present an algorithm that finds a bisection whose cost is within ratio of O(log2 n) from the optimal. For graphs excluding any fixed graph as a minor (e.g. planar graphs) we ...

A .699-approximation algorithm for Max-Bisection

A Unified Framework for Obtaining Improved Approximation Algorithms for Maximum Graph Bisection Problems