Randomized trial demonstrates the relationship between dicuts and digoins in chordal graphs, suggesting new algorithms for packing.
In a digraph, a dicut is a cut where all the arcs cross in one direction. A dijoin is a subset of arcs that intersects every dicut. Edmonds and Giles conjectured that in a weighted digraph, the minimum weight of a dicut is equal to the maximum size of a packing of dijoins. This has been disproved. However, the unweighted version conjectured by Woodall remains open. We prove that the Edmonds–Giles conjecture is true if the underlying undirected graph is chordal. We also give a strongly polynomial‐time algorithm to construct such a packing.
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