Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4665580 | Advances in Mathematics | 2015 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
Given k pairs of vertices (si,ti)(si,ti)(1≤i≤k)(1≤i≤k) of a digraph G, how can we test whether there exist k vertex-disjoint directed paths from sisi to titi for 1≤i≤k1≤i≤k? This is NP-complete in general digraphs, even for k=2k=2[2], but for k=2k=2 there is a polynomial-time algorithm when G is a tournament (or more generally, a semicomplete digraph), due to Bang-Jensen and Thomassen [1]. Here we prove that for all fixed k there is a polynomial-time algorithm to solve the problem when G is semicomplete.
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Authors
Maria Chudnovsky, Alex Scott, Paul Seymour,