Shortest two disjoint paths in conservative graphs
Abstract
We consider the following problem that we call the Shortest Two Disjoint Paths problem: given an undirected graph with edge weights , two terminals and in , find two internally vertex-disjoint paths between and with minimum total weight. As shown recently by Schlotter and Seb\H{o} (2022), this problem becomes NP-hard if edges can have negative weights, even if the weight function is conservative, there are no cycles in with negative total weight. We propose a polynomial-time algorithm that solves the Shortest Two Disjoint Paths problem for conservative weights in the case when the negative-weight edges form a constant number of trees in .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2307.12602,
title = {Shortest two disjoint paths in conservative graphs},
author = {Ildikó Schlotter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.12602},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
A version of this paper has been accepted to the 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)