Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4650594 Discrete Mathematics 2008 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

The windy postman problem is the NP-hard problem of finding the minimum cost of a tour traversing all edges of an undirected graph, where the cost of an edge depends on the direction of traversal. Given an undirected graph G  , we consider the polyhedron O(G)O(G) induced by a linear programming relaxation of the windy postman problem. We say that G is windy postman perfect   if O(G)O(G) is integral. There exists a polynomial-time algorithm, based on the ellipsoid method, to solve the windy postman problem for the class of windy postman perfect graphs. By considering a family of polyhedra related to O(G)O(G), we prove that series–parallel graphs are windy postman perfect, therefore solving a conjecture of Win.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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