Kernel bounds for disjoint cycles and disjoint paths

Kernel Bounds for Disjoint Cycles and Disjoint Paths

In this paper, we give evidence for the problems Disjoint Cycles and Disjoint Paths that they cannot be preprocessed in polynomial time such that resulting instances always have a size bounded by a polynomial in a specified parameter (or, in short: do not have a polynomial kernel); these results are assuming the validity of certain complexity theoretic assumptions. We build upon recent results ...

Edge-disjoint Hamiltonian Paths and Cycles in Tournaments

We describe sufficient conditions for the existence of Hamiltonian paths in oriented graphs and use these to provide a complete description of the tournaments with no two edge-disjoint Hamiltonian paths. We prove that tournaments with small irregularity have many edge-disjoint Hamiltonian cycles in support of Kelly's conjecture.

Approximation Algorithms for Disjoint Paths

Disjoint Paths in Metacube

A new interconnection network with low-degree for very large parallel computers called metacube (MC) has been introduced recently. The MC network has short diameter similar to that of the hypercube. However, the degree of an MC network is much lower than that of a hypercube of the same size. More than one hundred of millions of nodes can be connected by an MC network with up to 6 links per node...

4.1 Edge Disjoint Paths

Problem Statement: Given a directed graphG and a set of terminal pairs {(s1, t1), (s2, t2), · · · , (sk, tk)}, our goal is to connect as many pairs as possible using non edge intersecting paths. Edge disjoint paths problem is NP-Complete and is closely related to the multicommodity flow problem. In fact integer multicommodity flow is a generalization of this problem. We describe a greedy approx...