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One-Face Shortest Disjoint Paths with a Deviation Terminal

Authors Yusuke Kobayashi , Tatsuya Terao

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Yusuke Kobayashi
  • Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan
Tatsuya Terao
  • Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan

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Supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 18H05291 and 20K11692.

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Yusuke Kobayashi and Tatsuya Terao. One-Face Shortest Disjoint Paths with a Deviation Terminal. In 33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 248, pp. 47:1-47:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.47

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For an undirected graph G and distinct vertices s₁, t₁, … , s_k, t_k called terminals, the shortest k-disjoint paths problem asks for k pairwise vertex-disjoint paths P₁, … , P_k such that P_i connects s_i and t_i for i = 1, … , k and the sum of their lengths is minimized. This problem is a natural optimization version of the well-known k-disjoint paths problem, and its polynomial solvability is widely open. One of the best results on the shortest k-disjoint paths problem is due to Datta et al. [Datta et al., 2018], who present a polynomial-time algorithm for the case when G is planar and all the terminals are on one face. In this paper, we extend this result by giving a polynomial-time randomized algorithm for the case when all the terminals except one are on some face of G. In our algorithm, we combine the arguments of Datta et al. with some results on the shortest disjoint (A + B)-paths problem shown by Hirai and Namba [Hirai and Namba, 2018]. To this end, we present a non-trivial bijection between k disjoint paths and disjoint (A + B)-paths, which is a key technical contribution of this paper.

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  • Mathematics of computing → Paths and connectivity problems
  • Mathematics of computing → Combinatorial algorithms
Keywords
  • shortest disjoint paths
  • polynomial time algorithm
  • planar graph

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