Approximating the minimum cycle mean

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Abstract: We consider directed graphs where each edge is labeled with an integer weight and study the fundamental algorithmic question of computing the value of a cycle with minimum mean weight. Our contributions are twofold: (1) First we show that the algorithmic question is reducible in O(n^2) time to the problem of a logarithmic number of min-plus matrix multiplications of n-by-n matrices, where n is the number of vertices of the graph. (2) Second, when the weights are nonnegative, we present the first (1 + {epsilon})-approximation algorithm for the problem and the running time of our algorithm is ilde(O)(n^omega log^3(nW/{epsilon}) / {epsilon}), where O(n^omega) is the time required for the classic n-by-n matrix multiplication and W is the maximum value of the weights.



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