A Blossom Algorithm for Maximum Edge-Disjoint T-Paths
A Blossom Algorithm for Maximum Edge-Disjoint T-Paths
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最大边不相交T路径的Blossom算法
DOI:
10.1137/1.9781611975994.119
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发表时间:
2020
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通讯作者:
Yokoi Yu
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作者:
Iwata Satoru;Yokoi Yu
LetG= (V, E) be a multigraph with a setT⊆Vof terminals. A path inGis called aT-path if its ends are distinct vertices inTand no internal vertices belong toT. In 1978, Mader showed a characterization of the maximum number of edge-disjointT-paths. The original proof was not constructive, and hence it did not suggest an efficient algorithm.In this paper, we provide a combinatorial, deterministic algorithm for finding the maximum number of edge-disjointT-paths. The algorithm adopts an augmenting path approach. More specifically, we introduce a novel concept of augmenting walks in auxiliary labeled graphs to capture a possible augmentation of the number of edge-disjointT-paths. To design a search procedure for an augmenting walk, we introduce blossoms analogously to the blossom algorithm of Edmonds (1965) for the matching problem, while it is neither a special case nor a generalization of the present problem. When the search procedure terminates without finding an augmenting walk, the algorithm provides a certificate for the optimality of the current edge-disjointT-paths. Thus the correctness argument of the algorithm serves as an alternative direct proof of Mader's theorem on edge-disjointT-paths. The algorithm runs inO(|V| • |E|2) time, which is much faster than the best known deterministic algorithm based on a reduction to the linear matroid parity problem.
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