Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4650594 | Discrete Mathematics | 2008 | 9 Pages |
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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Authors
Francisco Javier Zaragoza Martínez,