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Chinese Postman Problem on Edge-Colored Multigraphs

Data Structures and Algorithms 2016-09-13 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

It is well-known that the Chinese postman problem on undirected and directed graphs is polynomial-time solvable. We extend this result to edge-colored multigraphs. Our result is in sharp contrast to the Chinese postman problem on mixed graphs, i.e., graphs with directed and undirected edges, for which the problem is NP-hard.

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@article{arxiv.1512.06283,
  title  = {Chinese Postman Problem on Edge-Colored Multigraphs},
  author = {Gregory Gutin and Mark Jones and Bin Sheng and Magnus Wahlström and Anders Yeo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06283},
  year   = {2016}
}
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