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Integral cycle bases for cyclic timetabling. (English) Zbl 1160.90640
Summary: Cyclic railway timetables are typically modeled by a constraint graph $$G$$ with a cycle period time $$T$$, in which a periodic tension $$x$$ in $$G$$ corresponds to a cyclic timetable. In this model, the periodic character of the tension $$x$$ is guaranteed by requiring periodicity for each cycle in a strictly fundamental cycle basis, that is, the set of cycles generated by the chords of a spanning tree of $$G$$.
We introduce the more general concept of integral cycle bases for characterizing periodic tensions. We characterize integral cycle bases using the determinant of a cycle basis, and investigate further properties of integral cycle bases.
The periodicity of a single cycle is modeled by a so-called cycle integer variable. We exploit the wider class of integral cycle bases to find tighter bounds for these cycle integer variables, and provide various examples with tighter bounds. For cyclic railway timetabling in particular, we consider Minimum Cycle Bases for constructing integral cycle bases with tight bounds.

##### MSC:
 90C27 Combinatorial optimization 90B06 Transportation, logistics and supply chain management 90C35 Programming involving graphs or networks 90B35 Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research
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