When I search for Dijkstra's algorithm and hypergraphs, I don't get any results discussing it. The Wikipedia page regarding Dijkstra's algorithm doesn't mention hypergraphs and the one regarding hypergraphs doesn't mention Dijkstra's algorithm. When I search for shortest path algorithms for hypergraphs, I only get results with complicated algorithms.
But when I look at Dijkstra's algorithm, I can't seem to see anything in it where it uses the fact that each edge only connects two nodes.
Wikipedia states this pseudocode:
1 function Dijkstra(Graph, source):
2 dist[source] ← 0 // Initialization
3
4 create vertex set Q
5
6 for each vertex v in Graph:
7 if v ≠ source
8 dist[v] ← INFINITY // Unknown distance from source to v
9 prev[v] ← UNDEFINED // Predecessor of v
10
11 Q.add_with_priority(v, dist[v])
12
13
14 while Q is not empty: // The main loop
15 u ← Q.extract_min() // Remove and return best vertex
16 for each neighbor v of u: // only v that is still in Q
17 alt ← dist[u] + length(u, v)
18 if alt < dist[v]
19 dist[v] ← alt
20 prev[v] ← u
21 Q.decrease_priority(v, alt)
22
23 return dist, prev
The only time this algorithm mentions connections is in line 16, where it says "for each neighbor v of u".
Could I simply use this algorithm for hypergraphs and only get correct results?
