Finding a minimum circuit in a graph

  • Authors:
  • Alon Itai;Michael Rodeh

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • STOC '77 Proceedings of the ninth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

Finding minimum circuits in graphs and digraphs is discussed. An almost minimum circuit is a circuit which may have only one edge more than the minimum. An 0(n2) algorithm is presented to find an almost minimum circuit. The straightforward algorithm for finding a minimum circuit has an 0(ne) behavior. It is refined to yield an 0(n2) average time algorithm. An alternative method is to reduce the problem of finding a minimum circuit to that of finding a triangle in an auxiliary graph. Three methods for finding a triangle in a graph are presented. The first has an 0(e3/2) worst case bound ((n) for planar graphs); the second takes 0(n5/3) time on the average; the third has an 0(nlog7) worst case behavior. For digraphs, recent results of Bloniarz, Fisher and Meyer are used to obtain an algorithm with 0(n2logn) average behavior.