A Polynomial Time Algorithm to Find the Minimum Cycle Basis of a Regular Matroid

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Golynski;Joseph D. Horton

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SWAT '02 Proceedings of the 8th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

An algorithm is given to solve the minimum cycle basis problem for regular matroids. The result is based upon Seymour's decomposition theorem for regular matroids; the Gomory-Hu tree, which is essentially the solution for cographic matroids; and the corresponding result for graphs. The complexity of the algorithm is O((n + m)4), provided that a regular matroid is represented as a binary n脳m matrix. The complexity decreases to O((n+m)3.376) using fast matrix multiplication.