Preserving and Increasing Local Edge-Connectivity in Mixed Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Jorgen Bang-Jensen;Andras Frank;Bill Jackson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Generalizing and unifying earlier results of W. Mader, and A. Frank and B. Jackson, we prove two splitting theorems concerning mixed graphs. By invoking these theorems we obtain min-max formulae for the minimum number of new edges to be added to a mixed graph so that the resulting graph satisfies local edge-connectivity prescriptions. An extension of Edmonds's theorem on disjoint arborescences is also deduced along with a new sufficient condition for the solvability of the edge-disjoint paths problem in digraphs. The approach gives rise to strongly polynomial algorithms for the corresponding optimization problems.