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The Min-Min problem of finding a disjoint-path pair with the length of the shorter path minimized is known to be NP-hard and admits no K-approximation for any K > 1 in the general case (Xu et al. in IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 14:147-158, 2006). In this paper, we first show that Bhatia et al.'s NP-hardness proof (Bhatia et al. in J. Comb. Optim. 12:83-96, 2006), a claim of correction to Xu et al.'s proof (Xu et al. in IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 14:147-158, 2006), for the edge-disjoint Min-Min problem in the general undirected graphs is incorrect by giving a counter example that is an unsatisfiable 3SAT instance but classified as a satisfiable 3SAT instance in the proof of Bhatia et al. (J. Comb. Optim. 12:83-96, 2006). We then gave a correct proof of NP-hardness of this problem in undirected graphs. Finally we give a polynomial-time algorithm for the vertex disjoint Min-Min problem in planar graphs by showing that the vertex disjoint Min-Min problem is polynomially solvable in st-planar graph G=(V,E) whose corresponding auxiliary graph G(V,Ea(a){e(st)}) can be embedded into a plane, and a planar graph can be decomposed into several st-planar graphs whose Min-Min paths collectively contain a Min-Min disjoint-path pair between s and t in the original graph G. To the best of our knowledge, these are the first polynomial algorithms for the Min-Min problems in planar graphs.
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ALGORITHMICA
ISSN: 0178-4617
Year: 2013
Issue: 3
Volume: 66
Page: 641-653
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ESI Discipline: ENGINEERING;
JCR Journal Grade:3
CAS Journal Grade:4
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