Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

In the node-connectivity augmentation problem, we want to add a minimum number of new edges to an undirected graph to make it k-node-connected. The complexity of this question is still open, although the analogous questions of both directed and undirected edge-connectivity and directed node-connectivity augmentation are known to be polynomially solvable. I present a min-max formula and a polynomial time algorithm for the special case when the input graph is already (k-1)-connected. The formula has been conjectured by Frank and Jordan in 1994. In the first lecture, I presented previous results on the other connectivity augmentation variants. In the second part, I shall present my min-max formula and the main ideas of the proof.