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The Undirected Two Disjoint Shortest Paths Problem

Combinatorics 2018-09-12 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

The kk disjoint shortest paths problem (kk-DSPP) on a graph with kk source-sink pairs (si,ti)(s_i, t_i) asks for the existence of kk pairwise edge- or vertex-disjoint shortest sis_i-tit_i-paths. It is known to be NP-complete if kk is part of the input. Restricting to 22-DSPP with strictly positive lengths, it becomes solvable in polynomial time. We extend this result by allowing zero edge lengths and give a polynomial time algorithm based on dynamic programming for 22-DSPP on undirected graphs with non-negative edge lengths.

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@article{arxiv.1809.03820,
  title  = {The Undirected Two Disjoint Shortest Paths Problem},
  author = {Marinus Gottschau and Marcus Kaiser and Clara Waldmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.03820},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures

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