Minimum cycle cover and Chinese postman problems on mixed graphs with bounded tree-width

  • Authors:
  • Cristina G. Fernandes;Orlando Lee;Yoshiko Wakabayashi

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil;Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil;Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Let M=(V,E,A) be a mixed graph with vertex set V, edge set E and arc set A. A cycle cover of M is a family C={C"1,...,C"k} of cycles of M such that each edge/arc of M belongs to at least one cycle in C. The weight of C is @?"i"="1^k|C"i|. The minimum cycle cover problem is the following: given a strongly connected mixed graph M without bridges, find a cycle cover of M with weight as small as possible. The Chinese postman problem is: given a strongly connected mixed graph M, find a minimum length closed walk using all edges and arcs of M. These problems are NP-hard. We show that they can be solved in polynomial time if M has bounded tree-width.