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I have two problems related to paths in a directed graph. Let $G=(V,E)$ be a directed graph with source $s \in V$ and target $t \in V$. Let $v \in V \setminus \{s,t\}$ be another vertex in $G$.

  1. Find a simple directed path¹ from $s$ to $t$ through $v$.

  2. Find a simple directed path from $s$ to $t$ that goes through two fixed edges in $G$.

I do not know if there are polynomial time algorithms for them. Does anyone have solutions or references for them?


  1. A simple directed path does not allow any vertex to appear more than once.
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    $\begingroup$ For problem 1, see this post on cstheory.stackexchange.com. $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 26, 2012 at 21:48

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As Tsuyoshi Ito notes, the first problem can be solved using network flow. This was described in detail in cstheory.

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