A simplified correctness proof for a well-known algorithm computing strongly connected components

  • Authors:
  • Ingo Wegener

  • Affiliations:
  • FB Informatik, LS2, Univ. Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The computation of the strongly connected components of a directed graph is one of the fundamental algorithmic graph problems. Linear-time algorithms with simple implementations are known. Here a simplified correctness proof for one of these algorithms is presented.