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A Faster Deterministic Algorithm for Minimum Cycle Bases in Directed Graphs

Hariharan, Ramesh and Kavitha, Telikepalli and Mehlhorn, Kurt (2006) A Faster Deterministic Algorithm for Minimum Cycle Bases in Directed Graphs. In: 33rd ICALP 2006, 10 July 2006, Venice, Italy, pp. 250-261.

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Abstract

We consider the problem of computing a minimum cycle basis in a directed graph. The input to this problem is a directed graph G whose edges have non-negative weights. A cycle in this graph is actually a cycle in the underlying undirected graph with edges traversable in both directions. A {−1, 0, 1} edge incidence vector is associated with each cycle: edges traversed by the cycle in the right direction get 1 and edges traversed in the opposite direction get -1. The vector space over Q generated by these vectors is the cycle space of G. A minimum cycle basis is a set of cycles of minimum weight that span the cycle space of G. The current fastest algorithm for computing a minimum cycle basis in a directed graph with m edges and n vertices runs in $\'{O}(m^{ω+1}n)$ time (where ω < 2.376 is the exponent of matrix multiplication). Here we present an $O(m^3n + m^2n^2 log n)$ algorithm. We also slightly improve the running time of the current fastest randomized algorithm from $O(m^2n log n)$ to $O(m^2n + {mn}^2 log n)$.

Item Type: Conference Paper
Series.: Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Additional Information: Copyright of this article belongs to Springer-Verlag.
Department/Centre: Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited: 06 Nov 2007
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2010 04:41
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/12416

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