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Counting or producing all fixed cardinality transversals

Discrete Mathematics 2017-03-01 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

An algorith to count, or alternatively generate, all k-element transversals of a set system is presented and compared with three known methods. For special cases it works in output-linear time.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1106.0141,
  title  = {Counting or producing all fixed cardinality transversals},
  author = {Marcel Wild},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.0141},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

This improves upon the previous version, and is to appear (with identical content) in Algorithmica

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