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Walking Through Waypoints
We initiate the study of a fundamental combinatorial problem: Given a
capacitated graph , find a shortest walk ("route") from a source to a destination that includes all vertices specified by a set
: the \emph{waypoints}. This waypoint routing problem
finds immediate applications in the context of modern networked distributed
systems. Our main contribution is an exact polynomial-time algorithm for graphs
of bounded treewidth. We also show that if the number of waypoints is
logarithmically bounded, exact polynomial-time algorithms exist even for
general graphs. Our two algorithms provide an almost complete characterization
of what can be solved exactly in polynomial-time: we show that more general
problems (e.g., on grid graphs of maximum degree 3, with slightly more
waypoints) are computationally intractable
Long Circuits and Large Euler Subgraphs
An undirected graph is Eulerian if it is connected and all its vertices are
of even degree. Similarly, a directed graph is Eulerian, if for each vertex its
in-degree is equal to its out-degree. It is well known that Eulerian graphs can
be recognized in polynomial time while the problems of finding a maximum
Eulerian subgraph or a maximum induced Eulerian subgraph are NP-hard. In this
paper, we study the parameterized complexity of the following Euler subgraph
problems:
- Large Euler Subgraph: For a given graph G and integer parameter k, does G
contain an induced Eulerian subgraph with at least k vertices?
- Long Circuit: For a given graph G and integer parameter k, does G contain
an Eulerian subgraph with at least k edges?
Our main algorithmic result is that Large Euler Subgraph is fixed parameter
tractable (FPT) on undirected graphs. We find this a bit surprising because the
problem of finding an induced Eulerian subgraph with exactly k vertices is
known to be W[1]-hard. The complexity of the problem changes drastically on
directed graphs. On directed graphs we obtained the following complexity
dichotomy: Large Euler Subgraph is NP-hard for every fixed k>3 and is solvable
in polynomial time for k<=3. For Long Circuit, we prove that the problem is FPT
on directed and undirected graphs
Even-cycle decompositions of graphs with no odd--minor
An even-cycle decomposition of a graph G is a partition of E(G) into cycles
of even length. Evidently, every Eulerian bipartite graph has an even-cycle
decomposition. Seymour (1981) proved that every 2-connected loopless Eulerian
planar graph with an even number of edges also admits an even-cycle
decomposition. Later, Zhang (1994) generalized this to graphs with no
-minor.
Our main theorem gives sufficient conditions for the existence of even-cycle
decompositions of graphs in the absence of odd minors. Namely, we prove that
every 2-connected loopless Eulerian odd--minor-free graph with an even
number of edges has an even-cycle decomposition.
This is best possible in the sense that `odd--minor-free' cannot be
replaced with `odd--minor-free.' The main technical ingredient is a
structural characterization of the class of odd--minor-free graphs, which
is due to Lov\'asz, Seymour, Schrijver, and Truemper.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures; minor revisio
On some intriguing problems in Hamiltonian graph theory -- A survey
We survey results and open problems in Hamiltonian graph theory centred around three themes: regular graphs, -tough graphs, and claw-free graphs
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