Packing cycles exactly in polynomial time

  • Authors:
  • Qin Chen;Xujin Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 100190

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Let G=(V,E) be an undirected graph in which every vertex v驴V is assigned a nonnegative integer w(v). A w-packing is a collection of cycles (repetition allowed) in G such that every v驴V is contained at most w(v) times by the members of . Let 驴w驴=2|V|+驴 v驴V 驴log驴(w(v)+1)驴 denote the binary encoding length (input size) of the vector (w(v): v驴V) T . We present an efficient algorithm which finds in O(|V|8驴w驴2+|V|14) time a w-packing of maximum cardinality in G provided packing and covering cycles in G satisfy the 驴+-max-flow min-cut property.