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Publication
Journal of Algorithms
Paper
Transitive compaction in parallel via branchings
Abstract
We study the following problem: given a strongly connected digraph, find a minimal strongly connected spanning subgraph of it. Our main result is a parallel algorithm for this problem, which runs in polylog parallel time and uses O(n3) processors on a PRAM. Our algorithm is simple and the major tool it uses is computing a minimum-weight branching with zero-one weights. We also present sequential algorithms for the problem that run in time O(m + n · log n). © 1991.