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Phys. Rev. E 75, 066708 (2007) [10 pages]

Finding long cycles in graphs

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Enzo Marinari1, Guilhem Semerjian2, and Valery Van Kerrebroeck1
1Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Sapienza Università di Roma, P. A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
2LPTENS, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR 8549) du CNRS et de l’ENS associée à l’université Pierre et Marie Curie, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France

Received 27 February 2007; published 29 June 2007

We analyze the problem of discovering long cycles inside a graph. We propose and test two algorithms for this task. The first one is based on recent advances in statistical mechanics and relies on a message passing procedure. The second follows a more standard Monte Carlo Markov chain strategy. Special attention is devoted to Hamiltonian cycles of (nonregular) random graphs of minimal connectivity equal to 3.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.75.066708
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.75.066708
PACS:
02.70.−c, 02.10.Ox, 89.75.Hc