Edge-Minimum Walk of Modular Length in Polynomial Time - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique
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Edge-Minimum Walk of Modular Length in Polynomial Time

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We study the problem of finding, in a directed graph, an st-walk of length r mod q which is edge-minimum, i.e., uses the smallest number of distinct edges. Despite the vast literature on paths and cycles with modularity constraints, to the best of our knowledge we are the first to study this problem. Our main result is a polynomial-time algorithm that solves this task when r and q are constants. We also show how our proof technique gives an algorithm to solve a generalization of the well-known Directed Steiner Network problem, in which connections between endpoint pairs are required to satisfy modularity constraints on their length. Our algorithm is polynomial when the number of endpoint pairs and the modularity constraints on the pairs are constants.

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hal-04871489 , version 1 (07-01-2025)

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Antoine Amarilli, Benoit Groz, Nicole Wein. Edge-Minimum Walk of Modular Length in Polynomial Time. 16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science - ITCS 2025, Jan 2025, New York City, United States. ⟨hal-04871489⟩
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