Multiple-Source Multiple-Sink Maximum Flow in Directed Planar Graphs in Near-Linear Time

  • Authors:
  • Glencora Borradaile;Philip N. Klein;Shay Mozes;Yahav Nussbaum;Christian Wulff-Nilsen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 52nd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We give an O(n log3 n) algorithm that, given an n-node directed planar graph with arc capacities, a set of source nodes, and a set of sink nodes, finds a maximum flow from the sources to the sinks. Previously, the fastest algorithms known for this problem were those for general graphs.