Length 3 edge-disjoint paths is NP-hard

DOI10.1007/S00037-012-0038-4zbMATH Open1247.05118arXiv1201.6578OpenAlexW2075741721MaRDI QIDQ445249FDOQ445249

Jennifer Iglesias, Hannah Alpert

Publication date: 24 August 2012

Published in: Computational Complexity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 2003, it was claimed that the following problem was solvable in polynomial time: do there exist k edge-disjoint paths of length exactly 3 between vertices s and t in a given graph? The proof was flawed, and we show that this problem is NP-hard even if we disallow multiple edges. We use a reduction from Partial Orientation, a problem recently shown by P'alv"olgyi to be NP-hard.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6578

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zbMATH Keywords

network flowNP-completenessdegree sequencedirected graphNP-hardnessoriented graphEdge-disjoint paths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments (05C20) Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Vertex degrees (05C07) Paths and cycles (05C38) Connectivity (05C40)

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• On the complexity of vertex-disjoint length-restricted path problems
• Length 3 edge-disjoint paths is NP-hard

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