Finding strong components using depth-first search

Robert E. Tarjan; Uri Zwick

doi:10.1016/j.ejc.2023.103815

Finding strong components using depth-first search

Robert E. Tarjan, Uri Zwick

School of Computer Science

Tel Aviv University

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We survey three algorithms that use depth-first search to find the strong components of a directed graph in linear time: (1) Tarjan's algorithm; (2) a cycle-finding algorithm; and (3) a bidirectional search algorithm.

Original language	English
Article number	103815
Journal	European Journal of Combinatorics
Volume	119
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2023.103815
State	Published - Jun 2024

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Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

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