# Exact Localisations of Feedback Sets

@article{Hecht2017ExactLO,
title={Exact Localisations of Feedback Sets},
author={Michael Hecht},
journal={Theory of Computing Systems},
year={2017},
volume={62},
pages={1048-1084}
}
• M. Hecht
• Published 24 February 2017
• Mathematics
• Theory of Computing Systems
The feedback arc (vertex) set problem, shortened FASP (FVSP), is to transform a given multi digraph G = (V, E) into an acyclic graph by deleting as few arcs (vertices) as possible. Due to the results of Richard M. Karp in 1972 it is one of the classic NP-complete problems. An important contribution of this paper is that the subgraphs Gel(e), Gsi(e) of all elementary cycles or simple cycles running through some arc e ∈ E, can be computed in 𝓞|E|2$\mathcal {O}\big (|E|^{2}\big )$ and 𝓞(|E|4…
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