Finding a Path of Superlogarithmic Length

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Björklund;Thore Husfeldt

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICALP '02 Proceedings of the 29th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We consider the problem of finding a long, simple path in an undirected graph. We present a polynomial-time algorithm that finds a path of length 驴 (log L/log log L)2), where L denotes the length of the longest simple path in the graph.This establishes the performance ratio O|V|(log log |V|/log |V|)2) for the Longest Path problem, where V denotes the graph's vertices.