Finding Short Cycles in an Embedded Graph in Polynomial Time

dc.creatorRen, Han
dc.creatorCao, Ni
dc.date2008-07-10
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:49:34Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:49:34Z
dc.descriptionLet ${\cal{C}}_1$ be the set of fundamental cycles of breadth-first-search trees in a graph $G$ and ${\cal{C}}_2$ the set of the sums of two cycles in ${\cal{C}}_1$. Then we show that $(1) {\cal{C}}={\cal{C}}_1\bigcup{\cal{C}}_2$ contains a shortest $Π$-twosided cycle in a $Π$-embedded graph $G$;$(2)$ $\cal{C}$ contains all the possible shortest even cycles in a graph $G$;$(3)$ If a shortest cycle in a graph $G$ is an odd cycle, then $\cal{C}$ contains all the shortest odd cycles in $G$. This implies the existence of a polynomially bounded algorithm to find a shortest $Π-$twosided cycle in an embedded graph and thus solves an open problem of B.Mohar and C.Thomassen[2,pp112]
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1620
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1620
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/164638
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subject05C10, 05C30
dc.titleFinding Short Cycles in an Embedded Graph in Polynomial Time
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