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Directed Graphs into DAG
By WalidMasri, history, 10 years ago, In English

Hello everyone!

Having found the SCC of a directed graph G, how can I contract each SCC to a single node?

Thanks.

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Suppose you know C[v] — which component contains node v.
Now you scan through edges of the original graph, let current one be x->y.
Then you should add an edge C[x]->C[y] in compressed graph if C[x] is not equal to C[y].

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    Yes, and you should also remember to mark which edges have already been added so you don't double count any edge. You can use a boolean array or an edge set

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      What's so bad about keeping a multi-edge in DAG? :P

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        If we have to do some traversal in the compressed graph we are going to waste some operations while scanning the adjacency list of each vertex :P

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      I'd rather use disjoint sets. It doesn't require too much memory and I think it's faster than an edge set :D and are VERY easy to code

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        How can i use disjoint sets for this purpose? I have never seen this application, i usually use DSU for Kruskal's only :P

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        Other valid option would be using a hash function so you can check in O(1) whether the edge exists or not! It should be easy to come up with a function that wont generate collisions since amount of edges is usually small :)

        EDIT : never used unordered set, but this may actually be the implementation of what i said above

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