scholarly journals Countable Menger's Theorem with Finitary Matroid Constraints on the Ingoing Edges

10.37236/6586 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Attila Joó

We present a strengthening of the countable Menger's theorem of R. Aharoni. Let $ D=(V,A) $ be a countable digraph with $ s\neq t\in V $ and let $\mathcal{M}=\bigoplus_{v\in V}\mathcal{M}_v $ be a matroid on $ A $ where $ \mathcal{M}_v $ is a finitary matroid on the ingoing edges of $ v $. We show that there is a system of edge-disjoint $ s \rightarrow t $ paths $ \mathcal{P} $ such that the united edge set of these paths is $ \mathcal{M} $-independent, and there is a $ C \subseteq A $ consisting of one edge from each element of $\mathcal{P} $ for which $ \mathsf{span}_{\mathcal{M}}(C) $ covers all the $ s\rightarrow t $ paths in $ D $.


2021 ◽  
Vol 300 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Jelena Sedlar ◽  
Riste Škrekovski




Algorithmica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Ganian ◽  
Sebastian Ordyniak ◽  
M. S. Ramanujan

AbstractIn this paper we revisit the classical edge disjoint paths (EDP) problem, where one is given an undirected graph G and a set of terminal pairs P and asks whether G contains a set of pairwise edge-disjoint paths connecting every terminal pair in P. Our focus lies on structural parameterizations for the problem that allow for efficient (polynomial-time or FPT) algorithms. As our first result, we answer an open question stated in Fleszar et al. (Proceedings of the ESA, 2016), by showing that the problem can be solved in polynomial time if the input graph has a feedback vertex set of size one. We also show that EDP parameterized by the treewidth and the maximum degree of the input graph is fixed-parameter tractable. Having developed two novel algorithms for EDP using structural restrictions on the input graph, we then turn our attention towards the augmented graph, i.e., the graph obtained from the input graph after adding one edge between every terminal pair. In constrast to the input graph, where EDP is known to remain -hard even for treewidth two, a result by Zhou et al. (Algorithmica 26(1):3--30, 2000) shows that EDP can be solved in non-uniform polynomial time if the augmented graph has constant treewidth; we note that the possible improvement of this result to an FPT-algorithm has remained open since then. We show that this is highly unlikely by establishing the [1]-hardness of the problem parameterized by the treewidth (and even feedback vertex set) of the augmented graph. Finally, we develop an FPT-algorithm for EDP by exploiting a novel structural parameter of the augmented graph.



2021 ◽  
Vol 396 ◽  
pp. 125908
Author(s):  
Jelena Sedlar ◽  
Riste Škrekovski




2009 ◽  
Vol 410 (8-10) ◽  
pp. 926-932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sun-Yuan Hsieh ◽  
Chang-Jen Tu


Author(s):  
Yuan Si ◽  
Ping Li ◽  
Yuzhi Xiao ◽  
Jinxia Liang

For a vertex set [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text], we use [Formula: see text] to denote the maximum number of edge-disjoint Steiner trees of [Formula: see text] such that any two of such trees intersect in [Formula: see text]. The generalized [Formula: see text]-connectivity of [Formula: see text] is defined as [Formula: see text]. We get that for any generalized Petersen graph [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] when [Formula: see text]. We give the values of [Formula: see text] for Petersen graph [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text], and the values of [Formula: see text] for generalized Petersen graph [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text].



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