TBI 01-pfs-014 Minimum Path Bases and Relevant Paths<br>

01-pfs-014


Abstract:
Minimum Path Bases and Relevant Paths

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Petra M. Gleiss, Josef Leydold, Peter F. Stadler

Given an undirected graph G(V,E) and a vertex subset U of V the U-space is the vector space over GF(2) spanned by the paths with end-points in U and the cycles in G(V,E). We extend Vismara's algorithm to the computation of the union of all minimum length bases of the U-space.

Presented at the conference Recent Trends in Graph Theory, Algebraic Combinatorics, and Graph Algorithms, Bled (Slovenia) Sep 24-27 (2001).

Keywords: Cycle Space, Relevant Cycles and Paths
AMS subject classification: 05C38 [paths and cycles]



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