Abstract: The classical NP-hard feedback arc set problem (FASP) and feedback vertex set problem (FVSP) ask for a minimum set of arcs $\varepsilon \subseteq E$ or vertices $\nu \subseteq V$ whose removal $G\setminus \varepsilon$, $G\setminus \nu$ makes a given multi-digraph $G=(V,E)$ acyclic, respectively. Though both problems are known to be APX-hard, approximation algorithms or proofs of inapproximability are unknown. We propose a new $\mathcal{O}(|V||E|^4)$-heuristic for the directed FASP. While a ratio of $r \approx 1.3606$ is known to be a lower boun...
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Topics: 
Combinatorics
Discrete mathematics