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#### Hitting Long Directed Cycles is Fixed-Parameter Tractable

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Marx,  Dániel
Algorithms and Complexity, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society;

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Göke, A., Marx, D., & Mnich, M. (2020). Hitting Long Directed Cycles is Fixed-Parameter Tractable. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05267.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-4923-0
##### Abstract
In the Directed Long Cycle Hitting Set} problem we are given a directed graph
$G$, and the task is to find a set $S$ of at most $k$ vertices/arcs such that
$G-S$ has no cycle of length longer than $\ell$. We show that the problem can
be solved in time $2^{\mathcal O(\ell k^3\log k + k^5\log k\log\ell)}\cdot n^{\mathcal O(1)}$, that is, it is fixed-parameter tractable (FPT)
parameterized by $k$ and $\ell$. This algorithm can be seen as a far-reaching
generalization of the fixed-parameter tractability of {\sc Mixed Graph Feedback
Vertex Set} [Bonsma and Lokshtanov WADS 2011], which is already a common
generalization of the fixed-parameter tractability of (undirected) {\sc
Feedback Vertex Set} and the {\sc Directed Feedback Vertex Set} problems, two
classic results in parameterized algorithms. The algorithm requires significant
insights into the structure of graphs without directed cycles length longer
than $\ell$ and can be seen as an exact version of the approximation algorithm
following from the Erd{\H{o}}s-P{\'o}sa property for long cycles in directed
graphs proved by Kreutzer and Kawarabayashi [STOC 2015].