2008
DOI: 10.1145/1328911.1328918
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Finding a long directed cycle

Abstract: Consider a digraph with n vertices. For any fixed value k, we present linear-and almostlinear-time algorithms to find a cycle of length ≥ k, if one exists. We also find a cycle that has length ≥ log n/ log log n in polynomial time, if one exists. Under an appropriate complexity assumption it is known to be impossible to improve this guarantee by more than a log log n factor. Our approach is based on depth-first search.

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“…Theorem 18 (Gabow and Nie [10,11] The complexity given in Proposition 20 is certainly not optimal. For example, it can be improved for spindles with paths of small lengths.…”
Section: Subdivision Of Directed Cyclesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Theorem 18 (Gabow and Nie [10,11] The complexity given in Proposition 20 is certainly not optimal. For example, it can be improved for spindles with paths of small lengths.…”
Section: Subdivision Of Directed Cyclesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…P U lop is detected by an application of a simple randomized algorithm (Theorem 2.2) proposed by [25] to find simple cycles (in our case, C 6 ). For cycles longer than or equal to length k = 8, we apply Theorem 4.1 from [26] and run DFS to check for long backedges. If DFS fails to detect long backedges, then Theorem 4.1 says a long simple cycle, if it exists, will have length between k and 2k − 4.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…contains an additional factor of 1/2 due to symmetry, but nevertheless is upper bounded by the expressions in (30) and (31).…”
Section: A Ancillary Lemmasmentioning
confidence: 99%