Interchangeability of Relevant Cycles in Graphs

Petra M. Gleiss, Josef Leydold, Peter F. Stadler

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Abstract

The set R of relevant cycles of a graph G is the union of its minimum cycle bases. We introduce a partition of R such that each cycle in a class W can be expressed as a sum of other cycles in W and shorter cycles. It is shown that each minimum cycle basis contains the same number of representatives of a given class W. This result is used to derive upper and lower bounds on the number of distinct minimum cycle bases. Finally, we give a polynomial-time algorithm to compute this partition. (author's abstract)

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ReihePreprint Series / Department of Applied Statistics and Data Processing
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