Disjoint paths in unions of tournaments
Combinatorics
2018-12-27 v2
Abstract
Given pairs of vertices of a digraph , how can we test whether there exist vertex-disjoint directed paths from to for ? This is NP-complete in general digraphs, even for , but in an earlier paper we proved that for all fixed , there is a polynomial-time algorithm to solve the problem if is a tournament (or more generally, a semicomplete digraph). Here we prove that for all fixed there is a polynomial-time algorithm to solve the problem when is partitioned into a bounded number of sets each inducing a semicomplete digraph (and we are given the partition).
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@article{arxiv.1604.02317,
title = {Disjoint paths in unions of tournaments},
author = {Maria Chudnovsky and Alex Scott and Paul Seymour},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.02317},
year = {2018}
}