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Autores principales: Auger, David, Coucheney, Pierre, Etse, Kossi Roland
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Publicado: 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18364
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author Auger, David
Coucheney, Pierre
Etse, Kossi Roland
author_facet Auger, David
Coucheney, Pierre
Etse, Kossi Roland
contents We develop a unified framework for rotor-routing that extends the classical model to a broad class of multigraphs equipped with Generalized Rotor Mechanisms (GRM). This perspective places rotor-routing on the same footing as abelian sandpiles by interpreting both as conservative instances of Vector Addition Systems (VAS). Within this framework, routing becomes a linear transformation governed by arc mechanisms, while legality is enforced through non-negativity constraints. We introduce four routing models -- free routing, standard rotor-routing, cyclic GRM routing, and fully general GRM routing -- and study their reachability problems in both the linear and legal settings. Our results generalize previous characterizations for standard rotor-routing and extend them to the GRM setting. In particular, we show that legal reachability in GRM multigraphs is NP-complete, whereas the cyclic GRM routing model, which includes the classical rotor-router, admits a polynomial-time algorithm.
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spellingShingle Linear Extensions of Rotor-Routing in Directed Graphs: Reachability Problems
Auger, David
Coucheney, Pierre
Etse, Kossi Roland
Discrete Mathematics
Combinatorics
We develop a unified framework for rotor-routing that extends the classical model to a broad class of multigraphs equipped with Generalized Rotor Mechanisms (GRM). This perspective places rotor-routing on the same footing as abelian sandpiles by interpreting both as conservative instances of Vector Addition Systems (VAS). Within this framework, routing becomes a linear transformation governed by arc mechanisms, while legality is enforced through non-negativity constraints. We introduce four routing models -- free routing, standard rotor-routing, cyclic GRM routing, and fully general GRM routing -- and study their reachability problems in both the linear and legal settings. Our results generalize previous characterizations for standard rotor-routing and extend them to the GRM setting. In particular, we show that legal reachability in GRM multigraphs is NP-complete, whereas the cyclic GRM routing model, which includes the classical rotor-router, admits a polynomial-time algorithm.
title Linear Extensions of Rotor-Routing in Directed Graphs: Reachability Problems
topic Discrete Mathematics
Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18364