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The Minimum Feedback Arc Set Problem is NP-Hard for Tournaments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2006

PIERRE CHARBIT
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Camille Jordan, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, France (e-mail: charbit@univ-lyon1.fr, thomasse@univ-lyon1.fr)
STÉPHAN THOMASSÉ
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Camille Jordan, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, France (e-mail: charbit@univ-lyon1.fr, thomasse@univ-lyon1.fr)
ANDERS YEO
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK (e-mail: anders@cs.rhul.ac.uk)

Abstract

Answering a question of Bang-Jensen and Thomassen [4], we prove that the minimum feedback arc set problem is NP-hard for tournaments.

Type
Paper
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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