A faster deterministic maximum flow algorithm

  • Authors:
  • V. King;S. Rao;R. Tarjan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SODA '92 Proceedings of the third annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

We describe a deterministic version of a 1990 Cheriyan, Hagerup, and Mehlhorn randomized algorithm for computing the maximum flow on a directed graph with n nodes and m edges which runs in time O(mn + n2+&egr;, for any constant &egr;. This improves upon Alon's 1989 bound of O(mn + n8/3log n) [A] and gives an O(mn) deterministic algorithm for all m n1+&egr;. Thus it extends the range of m/n for which an O(mn) algorithm is known, and matches the 1988 algorithm of Goldberg and Tarjan [GT] for smaller values of m/n.