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Rerouting shortest paths in planar graphs

Data Structures and Algorithms 2015-03-20 v1

Abstract

A rerouting sequence is a sequence of shortest st-paths such that consecutive paths differ in one vertex. We study the the Shortest Path Rerouting Problem, which asks, given two shortest st-paths P and Q in a graph G, whether a rerouting sequence exists from P to Q. This problem is PSPACE-hard in general, but we show that it can be solved in polynomial time if G is planar. To this end, we introduce a dynamic programming method for reconfiguration problems.

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@article{arxiv.1204.5613,
  title  = {Rerouting shortest paths in planar graphs},
  author = {Paul Bonsma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.5613},
  year   = {2015}
}

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