Enumeration of the Elementary Circuits of a Directed Graph
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Tarjan, Robert Endre
Abstract
An algorithm to enumerate all the elementary circuits of a directed graph is presented. The algorithm uses back-tracking with lookahead to avoid unnecessary work, and it has a time bound of $O ((V+E)(C+1))$ when applied to a graph with $V$ vertices, $E$ edges, and $C$ elementary circuits. Keywords: Algorithm, circuit, cycle, graph
Date Issued
1972-09
Publisher
Cornell University
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http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cs/TR72-145
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technical report