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Second shortest simple paths in directed graphs: a crossing decomposition and a span-adaptive exact algorithm

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Under the APSP conjecture, no algorithm solves the narrow core in O ( m √ n polylog( nC )) time for all polynomially bounded integer costs: the decomposition confines the known hardness of 2-SP to a small, explicitly described class of detours.

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