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Formally, given a graph\n            <jats:italic>G<\/jats:italic>\n            and an integer\n            <jats:italic>k<\/jats:italic>\n            ,\n            <jats:sc>\n              <jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>\n              -Contraction\n            <\/jats:sc>\n            asks whether there exists\n            <jats:italic>X<\/jats:italic>\n            \u2286\n            <jats:italic>E(G)<\/jats:italic>\n            such that\n            <jats:italic>G\/X<\/jats:italic>\n            \u2208\n            <jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>\n            and |\n            <jats:italic>X<\/jats:italic>\n            | \u2264\n            <jats:italic>k<\/jats:italic>\n            . Here,\n            <jats:italic>G\/X<\/jats:italic>\n            is the graph obtained from\n            <jats:italic>G<\/jats:italic>\n            by contracting edges in\n            <jats:italic>X<\/jats:italic>\n            . We obtain the following results for the\n            <jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>\n            -\n            <jats:sc>Contraction<\/jats:sc>\n            problem:\n            <jats:list>\n              <jats:list-item>\n                <jats:label>\u2022<\/jats:label>\n                <jats:p>\n                  <jats:sc>Clique Contraction<\/jats:sc>\n                  is known to be\n                  <jats:sans-serif>FPT<\/jats:sans-serif>\n                  . However, unless NP\u2286 coNP\/\n                  <jats:italic>poly<\/jats:italic>\n                  , it does not admit a polynomial kernel. We show that it admits a polynomial-size approximate kernelization scheme (\n                  <jats:sans-serif>PSAKS<\/jats:sans-serif>\n                  ). That is, it admits a (1 + \u03b5)-approximate kernel with\n                  <jats:italic>O<\/jats:italic>\n                  (\n                  <jats:italic>\n                    k\n                    <jats:sup>f(\u03b5))<\/jats:sup>\n                  <\/jats:italic>\n                  vertices for every \u03b5 &gt; 0.\n                <\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:list-item>\n              <jats:list-item>\n                <jats:label>\u2022<\/jats:label>\n                <jats:p>\n                  <jats:sc>Split Contraction<\/jats:sc>\n                  is known to be\n                  <jats:sans-serif>W[1]-Hard<\/jats:sans-serif>\n                  . We deconstruct this intractability result in two ways. First, we give a (2+\u03b5)-approximate polynomial kernel for\n                  <jats:sc>Split Contraction<\/jats:sc>\n                  (which also implies a factor (2+\u03b5)-\n                  <jats:sans-serif>FPT<\/jats:sans-serif>\n                  -approximation algorithm for\n                  <jats:sc>Split Contraction<\/jats:sc>\n                  ). Furthermore, we show that, assuming\n                  <jats:sans-serif>Gap-ETH<\/jats:sans-serif>\n                  , there is no (5\/4-\u03b4)-\n                  <jats:sans-serif>FPT<\/jats:sans-serif>\n                  -approximation algorithm for\n                  <jats:sc>Split Contraction<\/jats:sc>\n                  . Here, \u03b5, \u03b4 &gt; 0 are fixed constants.\n                <\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:list-item>\n              <jats:list-item>\n                <jats:label>\u2022<\/jats:label>\n                <jats:p>\n                  <jats:sc>Chordal Contraction<\/jats:sc>\n                  is known to be\n                  <jats:sans-serif>W[2]-Hard<\/jats:sans-serif>\n                  . We complement this result by observing that the existing\n                  <jats:sans-serif>W[2]-hardness<\/jats:sans-serif>\n                  reduction can be adapted to show that, assuming\n                  <jats:sans-serif>FPT<\/jats:sans-serif>\n                  \u2260\n                  <jats:sans-serif>W[1]<\/jats:sans-serif>\n                  , there is no\n                  <jats:italic>F(k)<\/jats:italic>\n                  -\n                  <jats:sans-serif>FPT<\/jats:sans-serif>\n                  -approximation algorithm for\n                  <jats:sc>Chordal Contraction<\/jats:sc>\n                  . Here,\n                  <jats:italic>F(k)<\/jats:italic>\n                  is an arbitrary function depending on\n                  <jats:italic>k<\/jats:italic>\n                  alone.\n                <\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:list-item>\n            <\/jats:list>\n            We say that an algorithm is an\n            <jats:italic>h(k)<\/jats:italic>\n            -\n            <jats:sans-serif>FPT<\/jats:sans-serif>\n            -approximation algorithm for the\n            <jats:sc>\n              <jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>\n              -Contraction\n            <\/jats:sc>\n            problem, if it runs in\n            <jats:sans-serif>FPT<\/jats:sans-serif>\n            time, and on any input\n            <jats:italic>(G, k)<\/jats:italic>\n            such that there exists\n            <jats:italic>X<\/jats:italic>\n            \u2286\n            <jats:italic>E(G)<\/jats:italic>\n            satisfying\n            <jats:italic>G\/X<\/jats:italic>\n            \u2208\n            <jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>\n            and |\n            <jats:italic>X<\/jats:italic>\n            | \u2264\n            <jats:italic>k<\/jats:italic>\n            , it outputs an edge set\n            <jats:italic>Y<\/jats:italic>\n            of size at most\n            <jats:italic>h(k)<\/jats:italic>\n            \u010b\n            <jats:italic>k<\/jats:italic>\n            for which\n            <jats:italic>G\/Y<\/jats:italic>\n            is in\n            <jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>\n            .\n          <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1145\/3470869","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,1]],"date-time":"2021-09-01T19:28:46Z","timestamp":1630524526000},"page":"1-40","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["On the Parameterized Approximability of Contraction to Classes of Chordal Graphs"],"prefix":"10.1145","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Spoorthy","family":"Gunda","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada"}]},{"given":"Pallavi","family":"Jain","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India"}]},{"given":"Daniel","family":"Lokshtanov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA"}]},{"given":"Saket","family":"Saurabh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, HBNI, Chennai, India and University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway"}]},{"given":"Prafullkumar","family":"Tale","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany"}]}],"member":"320","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_1_1_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00224-018-9892-z"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_2_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Split contraction: The untold story","volume":"5","author":"Agrawal Akanksha","year":"2017","unstructured":"Akanksha Agrawal , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , and Meirav Zehavi . 2017 . 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