Kernel bounds for disjoint cycles and disjoint paths

In this paper, we show that the problems Disjoint Cycles and Disjoint Paths do not have polynomial kernels, unless N P ⊆ c o N P / p o l y . Thus, these problems do not allow polynomial time preprocessing that results in instances whose size is bounded by a polynomial in the parameter at hand. We bu...

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