Edge-Disjoint Paths in Planar Graphs with Short Total Length

Brandes, Ulrik; Neyer, Gabriele; Wagner, Dorothea

Edge-Disjoint Paths in Planar Graphs with Short Total Length

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Date

1996

Authors

Brandes, Ulrik

Neyer, Gabriele

Wagner, Dorothea

Series

Konstanzer Schriften in Mathematik und Informatik; 19

Publication type

Preprint

Abstract

The problem of finding edge-disjoint paths in a planar graph such that each path connects two specified vertices on the outer face of the graph is well studied. The "classical" Eulerian case introduced by Okamura and Seymour is solvable in linear time by an Algorithm introduced by Wagner and Weihe. So far, the length of the paths were not considered. In this paper now, we prove that the problem of finding edge-disjoint paths of minimum total length in a planar graph is NP-hard, even if the graph fullfills the Eulerian condition and the maximum degree is four. Minimizing the length of the longest path is NP-hard as well. Efficient heuristics based on the algorithm by Wagner and Weihe are presented that determine edge-disjoint paths of small total length. We have implemented these heuristics and have studied their behaviour. It turns out that some of the heuristics are empirically very successful.

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004 Computer Science

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BRANDES, Ulrik, Gabriele NEYER, Dorothea WAGNER, 1996. Edge-Disjoint Paths in Planar Graphs with Short Total Length

BibTex

@unpublished{Brandes1996EdgeD-5975,
  year={1996},
  title={Edge-Disjoint Paths in Planar Graphs with Short Total Length},
  author={Brandes, Ulrik and Neyer, Gabriele and Wagner, Dorothea}
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