Graph Theory37 sections · 1633 units
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SCC and Cycle Detection

(Finding directed cycles)

If a directed graph contains a cycle, all nodes in that cycle belong to the same SCC. To detect if the graph has any cycle: Run SCC detection. If any SCC contains more than one node, the graph has at least one cycle.

To find all cycles: Find all SCCs with size >1> 1. Each such SCC contains at least one cycle (possibly many). To extract individual cycles, run DFS within each multi-node SCC and track back edges.