Minimum Cycle Bases and Their Applications

  • Authors:
  • Franziska Berger;Peter Gritzmann;Sven Vries

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Six MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, USA 11201;Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München, München, Germany 80290;FB IV, Mathematik, Universität Trier, Trier, Germany 54286

  • Venue:
  • Algorithmics of Large and Complex Networks
  • Year:
  • 2009

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Minimum cycle bases of weighted undirected and directed graphs are bases of the cycle space of the (di)graphs with minimum weight. We survey the known polynomial-time algorithms for their construction, explain some of their properties and describe a few important applications.