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A Study on the New Algorithm for Shortest Paths Problem

This paper presents a new algorithm for the K Shortest Paths Problem which is developed with a Double Shortest Arborescence and an inward arc breaking method. A Double Shortest Arborescence is made from merging a forward shortest arborescence and a backward one with Dijkstra algorithm. and shows us information about each shorter path to traverse each arc. Then K shorter paths are selected in ascending order of the length of each short path to traverse each arc, and some paths of the K shorter paths need to be replaced with some hidden shorter paths in order to get the optimal paths. And if the cross nodes which have more than 2 inward arcs are found at least three times in K shorter path, the first inward arc of the shorter than the Kth shorter path, the exposed path replaces the Kth shorter path. This procedure is repeated until cross nodes are not found in K shorter paths, and then the K shortest paths problem is solved exactly. This algorithm are computed with complexity o($n^3$) and especially O($n^2$) in the case K=3.