We introduce a natural temporal analogue of Eulerian circuits and prove that, in contrast with the static case, it is NP-hard to determine whether a given temporal graph is temporally Eulerian even if strong restrictions are placed on the structure of the underlying graph and each edge is active at only three times. However, we do obtain an FPT-algorithm with respect to a new parameter called interval-membership-width which restricts the times assigned to different edges; we believe that this parameter will be of independent interest for other temporal graph problems. Our techniques also allow us to resolve two open question of Akrida, Mertzios and Spirakis [CIAC 2019] concerning a related problem of exploring temporal stars.
翻译:我们引入了Eulirian电路的自然时间模拟,并证明与静态情况相反,很难确定某一时间图是否属时间性的Eulirian,即使对底图的结构设置了严格的限制,而且每个边缘只活跃了三次。然而,我们确实获得了一个称为间隙会合-边缘的新参数的FPT-algorithm,该参数限制了分配给不同边缘的时间;我们认为,这一参数对其他时间图问题具有独立的兴趣。我们的技术还使我们得以解决Akrida、Mertzios和Spirakis这两个与探索时间恒星有关的问题[CIAC 2019]。