Minimum cycle bases of weighted outerplanar graphs

  • Authors:
  • Tsung-Hao Liu;Hsueh-I Lu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We give the first optimal algorithm that computes a minimum cycle basis for any weighted outerplanar graph. Specifically, for any n-node edge-weighted outerplanar graph G, we give an O(n)-time algorithm to obtain an O(n)-space compact representation Z(C) for a minimum cycle basis C of G. Each cycle in C can be computed from Z(C) in O(1) time per edge. Our result works for directed and undirected outerplanar graphs G.