Abstract

Given a number of requests ℓ , we propose a polynomial-time algorithm for finding ℓ disjoint paths in a symmetric directed graph. It is known that the problem of finding ℓ ≥ 2 disjoint paths in a directed graph is NP-hard [S. Fortune, J. Hopcroft, J. Wyllie, The directed subgraph homeomorphism problem, Journal of Theoretical Computer Science 10 (2) (1980) 111–121]. However, by studying minimal solutions it turns out that only a finite number of configurations are possible in a symmetric digraph. We use Robertson and Seymour’s polynomial-time algorithm [N. Robertson, P. D. Seymour, Graph minors xiii. The disjoint paths problem, Journal of Combinatorial Theory B (63) (1995) 65–110] to check the feasibility of each configuration.

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