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Disjoint paths in tournaments

Combinatorics 2014-11-25 v1

Abstract

Given kk pairs of vertices (si,ti)(s_i,t_i), 1ik1\le i\le k, of a digraph GG, how can we test whether there exist kk vertex-disjoint directed paths from sis_i to tit_i for 1ik1\le i\le k? This is NP-complete in general digraphs, even for k=2k = 2, but for k=2k=2 there is a polynomial-time algorithm when GG is a tournament (or more generally, a semicomplete digraph), due to Bang-Jensen and Thomassen. Here we prove that for all fixed kk there is a polynomial-time algorithm to solve the problem when GG is semicomplete.

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@article{arxiv.1411.6226,
  title  = {Disjoint paths in tournaments},
  author = {Maria Chudnovsky and Paul Seymour and Alex Scott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6226},
  year   = {2014}
}
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