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We deal with exact algorithms for Bandwidth, a long studied NP-hard problem. For a long time nothing better than the trivial O *(n!) exhaustive search was known. In 2000, Feige an Kilian [4] came up with a O *(10n)-time algorithm. Since then there has been a growing interest in exponential time algorithms but this bound has not been improved.
In this paper we present a new and quite simple O *(5n) algorithm. We also obtain even better bound in some special cases.
We would like to thank INFO.RO for sponsoring the WG 2008 Best Student Paper Award that has been awarded to this paper.
This research is partially supported by a grant from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, project N206 005 32/0807.
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Cygan, M., Pilipczuk, M. (2008). Faster Exact Bandwidth. In: Broersma, H., Erlebach, T., Friedetzky, T., Paulusma, D. (eds) Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science. WG 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5344. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92248-3_10
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