Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society

Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society

Linear Sphericity Testing of 3-Connected Single Source Digraphs

Document Type : Research Paper

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Abstract
It has been proved that sphericity testing for digraphs is an
NP-complete problem. Here, we
investigate sphericity of 3-connected single source digraphs. We
provide a new combinatorial characterization of sphericity and give
a linear time algorithm for sphericity testing. Our algorithm tests
whether a 3-connected single source digraph with $n$ vertices is
spherical in $O(n)$ time.
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Volume 37, No. 3
September 2011
Pages 291-304

  • Receive Date 31 May 2009
  • Revise Date 17 March 2012
  • Accept Date 23 March 2010