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Reconfiguration of the Union of Arborescences

Authors Yusuke Kobayashi , Ryoga Mahara , Tamás Schwarcz

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  • Mathematics of computing → Graph theory
  • Mathematics of computing → Combinatorial optimization
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  • Arborescence packing
  • common matroid basis
  • combinatorial reconfiguration

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Abstract

An arborescence in a digraph is an acyclic arc subset in which every vertex except a root has exactly one incoming arc. In this paper, we show the reconfigurability of the union of k arborescences for fixed k in the following sense: for any pair of arc subsets that can be partitioned into k arborescences, one can be transformed into the other by exchanging arcs one by one so that every intermediate arc subset can also be partitioned into k arborescences. This generalizes the result by Ito et al. (2023), who showed the case with k = 1. Since the union of k arborescences can be represented as a common matroid basis of two matroids, our result gives a new non-trivial example of matroid pairs for which two common bases are always reconfigurable to each other.

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Yusuke Kobayashi, Ryoga Mahara, and Tamás Schwarcz. Reconfiguration of the Union of Arborescences. In 34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 283, pp. 48:1-48:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.48

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Yusuke Kobayashi
  • Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan
Ryoga Mahara
  • Department of Mathematical Informatics, University of Tokyo, Japan
Tamás Schwarcz
  • MTA-ELTE Momentum Matroid Optimization Research Group, Department of Operations Research, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Funding

This work was supported by the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, an International Joint Usage/Research Center located in Kyoto University and by the Lendület Programme of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences - grant number LP2021-1/2021.
  • Kobayashi, Yusuke: Yusuke Kobayashi was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP20H05795, JP20K11692, and JP22H05001.
  • Schwarcz, Tamás: Tamás Schwarcz was supported by the ÚNKP-22-3 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Culture and Innovation from the source of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank members of the project "Fusion of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics Approaches for Expanding Combinatorial Reconfiguration" for discussion on this topic. The authors are grateful to András Frank for bringing the paper [Francisco Barahona and William R Pulleyblank, 1987] to their attention.

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