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Linear-Time Algorithms for Computing Twinless Strong Articulation Points and Related Problems

Authors Loukas Georgiadis , Evangelos Kosinas

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  • Mathematics of computing → Graph algorithms
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  • 2-connectivity
  • cut pairs
  • strongly connected components

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Abstract

A directed graph G = (V,E) is twinless strongly connected if it contains a strongly connected spanning subgraph without any pair of antiparallel (or twin) edges. The twinless strongly connected components (TSCCs) of a directed graph G are its maximal twinless strongly connected subgraphs. These concepts have several diverse applications, such as the design of telecommunication networks and the structural stability of buildings. A vertex v ∈ V is a twinless strong articulation point of G, if the deletion of v increases the number of TSCCs of G. Here, we present the first linear-time algorithm that finds all the twinless strong articulation points of a directed graph. We show that the computation of twinless strong articulation points reduces to the following problem in undirected graphs, which may be of independent interest: Given a 2-vertex-connected undirected graph H, find all vertices v for which there exists an edge e such that H⧵{v,e} is not connected. We develop a linear-time algorithm that not only finds all such vertices v, but also computes the number of edges e such that H⧵{v,e} is not connected. This also implies that for each twinless strong articulation point v which is not a strong articulation point in a strongly connected digraph G, we can compute the number of TSCCs in G⧵v.

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Loukas Georgiadis and Evangelos Kosinas. Linear-Time Algorithms for Computing Twinless Strong Articulation Points and Related Problems. In 31st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 181, pp. 38:1-38:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.38

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Loukas Georgiadis
  • University of Ioannina, Greece
Evangelos Kosinas
  • University of Ioannina, Greece

Funding

Research supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the "First Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Faculty members and Researchers and the procurement of high-cost research equipment grant", Project FANTA (eFficient Algorithms for NeTwork Analysis), number HFRI-FM17-431.

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