Disjoint paths in sparse graphs

  • Authors:
  • Cédric Bentz

  • Affiliations:
  • LRI, Université Paris-Sud and CNRS, Orsay F-91405, France

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

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Abstract

We generalize all the results obtained for maximum integer multiflow and minimum multicut problems in trees by Garg, Vazirani and Yannakakis [N. Garg, V.V. Vazirani, M. Yannakakis, Primal-dual approximation algorithms for integral flow and multicut in trees, Algorithmica 18 (1997) 3-20] to graphs with a fixed cyclomatic number, while this cannot be achieved for other classical generalizations of trees. We also introduce thek-edge-outerplanar graphs, a class of planar graphs with arbitrary (but bounded) tree-width that generalizes the cacti, and show that the integrality gap of the maximum edge-disjoint paths problem is bounded in these graphs.