Abstract
Given four distinct vertices s1,s2,t1, and t2 of a graph G, the 2-disjoint paths problem is to determine two disjoint paths, p1 from s1 to t1 and p2 from s2 to t2, if such paths exist. Disjoint can mean vertex- or edge-disjoint. Both, the edge- and the vertex-disjoint version of the problem, are NP-hard in the case of directed graphs. For undirected graphs, we show that the O(mn)-time algorithm of Shiloach can be modified to solve the 2-vertex-disjoint paths problem in only O(n + mα(m,n)) time, where m is the number of edges in G, n is the number of vertices in G, and where α denotes the inverse of the Ackermann function. Our result also improves the running time for the 2-edge-disjoint paths problem on undirected graphs as well as the running times for the 2-vertex- and the 2-edge-disjoint paths problem on dags.
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