Title
Rooted Cycle Bases.
Abstract
A cycle basis in an undirected graph is a minimal set of simple cycles whose symmetric differences include all Eulerian subgraphs of the given graph. We define a rooted cycle basis to be a cycle basis in which all cycles contain a specified root edge, and we investigate the algorithmic problem of constructing rooted cycle bases. We show that a given graph has a rooted cycle basis if and only if the root edge belongs to its 2-core and the 2-core is 2-vertex-connected, and that constructing such a basis can be performed efficiently. We show that in an unweighted or positively weighted graph, it is possible to find the minimum weight rooted cycle basis in polynomial time. Additionally, we show that it is NP-complete to find a fundamental rooted cycle basis (a rooted cycle basis in which each cycle is formed by combining paths in a fixed spanning tree with a single additional edge) but that the problem can be solved by a fixed-parameter-tractable algorithm when parameterized by clique-width.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
J. Graph Algorithms Appl.
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Parameterized complexity,Cycle basis,Cycle graph,Arborescence,Eulerian path,Spanning tree,Cycle space,Time complexity,Mathematics
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
21
4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Eppstein14897533.94
J. Michael McCarthy201.01
Brian E. Parrish300.34