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Unsplittable Multicommodity Flows in Outerplanar Graphs

Data Structures and Algorithms 2025-05-21 v1

Abstract

We consider the problem of multicommodity flows in outerplanar graphs. Okamura and Seymour showed that the cut-condition is sufficient for routing demands in outerplanar graphs. We consider the unsplittable version of the problem and prove that if the cut-condition is satisfied, then we can route each demand along a single path by exceeding the capacity of an edge by no more than 185dmax\frac{18}{5} \cdot d_{max}, where dmaxd_{max} is the value of the maximum demand.

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@article{arxiv.2505.13635,
  title  = {Unsplittable Multicommodity Flows in Outerplanar Graphs},
  author = {David Alemán-Espinosa and Nikhil Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.13635},
  year   = {2025}
}

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