An O(nlogn) algorithm for finding minimal path cover in circular-arc graphs

  • Authors:
  • Y. Daniel Liang;G. K. Manacher

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Indiana Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN;Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

  • Venue:
  • CSC '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM conference on Computer science
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

Whether there exists a polynomial algorithm for the minimal path cover problem in circular-arc graphs remains open. In this paper, we present a polynomial time algorithm for finding a minimal path cover for a set of n arcs in a circular-arc model. Our algorithm takes &Ogr;(nlogn) time.