scholarly journals Packing Arc-Disjoint Cycles in Tournaments

Algorithmica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Bessy ◽  
Marin Bougeret ◽  
R. Krithika ◽  
Abhishek Sahu ◽  
Saket Saurabh ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 300 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Jelena Sedlar ◽  
Riste Škrekovski

Author(s):  
Vera Traub ◽  
Thorben Tröbst

AbstractWe consider the capacitated cycle covering problem: given an undirected, complete graph G with metric edge lengths and demands on the vertices, we want to cover the vertices with vertex-disjoint cycles, each serving a demand of at most one. The objective is to minimize a linear combination of the total length and the number of cycles. This problem is closely related to the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) and other cycle cover problems such as min-max cycle cover and bounded cycle cover. We show that a greedy algorithm followed by a post-processing step yields a $$(2 + \frac{2}{7})$$ ( 2 + 2 7 ) -approximation for this problem by comparing the solution to a polymatroid relaxation. We also show that the analysis of our algorithm is tight and provide a $$2 + \epsilon $$ 2 + ϵ lower bound for the relaxation.


2010 ◽  
Vol 310 (13-14) ◽  
pp. 1974-1978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jochen Harant ◽  
Dieter Rautenbach ◽  
Peter Recht ◽  
Ingo Schiermeyer ◽  
Eva-Maria Sprengel
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2002 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gil Kaplan ◽  
Arieh Lev

Let G be a transitive permutation group acting on a finite set of order n. We discuss certain types of transversals for a point stabiliser A in G: free transversals and global transversals. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of such transversals, and show the connection between these transversals and combinatorial problems of decomposing the complete directed graph into edge disjoint cycles. In particular, we classify all the inner-transitive Oberwolfach factorisations of the complete directed graph. We mention also a connection to Frobenius theorem.


10.37236/1214 ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Garth Isaak

We examine the size $s(n)$ of a smallest tournament having the arcs of an acyclic tournament on $n$ vertices as a minimum feedback arc set. Using an integer linear programming formulation we obtain lower bounds $s(n) \geq 3n - 2 - \lfloor \log_2 n \rfloor$ or $s(n) \geq 3n - 1 - \lfloor \log_2 n \rfloor$, depending on the binary expansion of $n$. When $n = 2^k - 2^t$ we show that the bounds are tight with $s(n) = 3n - 2 - \lfloor \log_2 n \rfloor$. One view of this problem is that if the 'teams' in a tournament are ranked to minimize inconsistencies there is some tournament with $s(n)$ 'teams' in which $n$ are ranked wrong. We will also pose some questions about conditions on feedback arc sets, motivated by our proofs, which ensure equality between the maximum number of arc disjoint cycles and the minimum size of a feedback arc set in a tournament.


2012 ◽  
Vol Vol. 14 no. 2 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter Rautenbach ◽  
Friedrich Regen

Graph Theory International audience We study graphs G in which the maximum number of vertex-disjoint cycles nu(G) is close to the cyclomatic number mu(G), which is a natural upper bound for nu(G). Our main result is the existence of a finite set P(k) of graphs for all k is an element of N-0 such that every 2-connected graph G with mu(G)-nu(G) = k arises by applying a simple extension rule to a graph in P(k). As an algorithmic consequence we describe algorithms calculating minmu(G)-nu(G), k + 1 in linear time for fixed k.


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