在无向图的情况下，最近发表的一篇论文(无向图中循环和st路径的最优列表)提供了一个渐近最优解。你可以在这里阅读http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2766或http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2627951 我知道它不能回答你的问题，但由于你的问题标题没有提到方向，它可能仍然对谷歌搜索有用

基于dfs的带有后边缘的变体确实会发现循环，但在许多情况下，它不会是最小循环。一般来说，DFS给出了存在循环的标志，但它不足以真正找到循环。例如，想象5个不同的循环共用两条边。仅仅使用DFS(包括回溯变量)没有简单的方法来识别周期。

Johnson算法确实给出了所有唯一的简单循环，并具有良好的时间和空间复杂度。

但如果你只想找到最小循环(意味着可能有多个循环通过任何顶点，我们感兴趣的是找到最小循环)，并且你的图不是很大，你可以尝试使用下面的简单方法。 它非常简单，但与约翰逊的相比相当慢。

So, one of the absolutely easiest way to find MINIMAL cycles is to use Floyd's algorithm to find minimal paths between all the vertices using adjacency matrix. This algorithm is nowhere near as optimal as Johnson's, but it is so simple and its inner loop is so tight that for smaller graphs (<=50-100 nodes) it absolutely makes sense to use it. Time complexity is O(n^3), space complexity O(n^2) if you use parent tracking and O(1) if you don't. First of all let's find the answer to the question if there is a cycle. The algorithm is dead-simple. Below is snippet in Scala.

  val NO_EDGE = Integer.MAX_VALUE / 2

  def shortestPath(weights: Array[Array[Int]]) = {
    for (k <- weights.indices;
         i <- weights.indices;
         j <- weights.indices) {
      val throughK = weights(i)(k) + weights(k)(j)
      if (throughK < weights(i)(j)) {
        weights(i)(j) = throughK
      }
    }
  }

Originally this algorithm operates on weighted-edge graph to find all shortest paths between all pairs of nodes (hence the weights argument). For it to work correctly you need to provide 1 if there is a directed edge between the nodes or NO_EDGE otherwise. After algorithm executes, you can check the main diagonal, if there are values less then NO_EDGE than this node participates in a cycle of length equal to the value. Every other node of the same cycle will have the same value (on the main diagonal).

为了重建周期本身，我们需要使用带有父跟踪的稍微修改版本的算法。

  def shortestPath(weights: Array[Array[Int]], parents: Array[Array[Int]]) = {
    for (k <- weights.indices;
         i <- weights.indices;
         j <- weights.indices) {
      val throughK = weights(i)(k) + weights(k)(j)
      if (throughK < weights(i)(j)) {
        parents(i)(j) = k
        weights(i)(j) = throughK
      }
    }
  }

如果顶点之间有边，父矩阵最初应该包含边缘单元中的源顶点索引，否则为-1。 函数返回后，对于每条边，您都将引用到最短路径树中的父节点。 然后很容易恢复实际的循环。

总之，我们有下面的程序来求所有的最小循环

  val NO_EDGE = Integer.MAX_VALUE / 2;

  def shortestPathWithParentTracking(
         weights: Array[Array[Int]],
         parents: Array[Array[Int]]) = {
    for (k <- weights.indices;
         i <- weights.indices;
         j <- weights.indices) {
      val throughK = weights(i)(k) + weights(k)(j)
      if (throughK < weights(i)(j)) {
        parents(i)(j) = parents(i)(k)
        weights(i)(j) = throughK
      }
    }
  }

  def recoverCycles(
         cycleNodes: Seq[Int], 
         parents: Array[Array[Int]]): Set[Seq[Int]] = {
    val res = new mutable.HashSet[Seq[Int]]()
    for (node <- cycleNodes) {
      var cycle = new mutable.ArrayBuffer[Int]()
      cycle += node
      var other = parents(node)(node)
      do {
        cycle += other
        other = parents(other)(node)
      } while(other != node)
      res += cycle.sorted
    }
    res.toSet
  }

还有一个小的main方法来测试结果

  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
    val n = 3
    val weights = Array(Array(NO_EDGE, 1, NO_EDGE), Array(NO_EDGE, NO_EDGE, 1), Array(1, NO_EDGE, NO_EDGE))
    val parents = Array(Array(-1, 1, -1), Array(-1, -1, 2), Array(0, -1, -1))
    shortestPathWithParentTracking(weights, parents)
    val cycleNodes = parents.indices.filter(i => parents(i)(i) < NO_EDGE)
    val cycles: Set[Seq[Int]] = recoverCycles(cycleNodes, parents)
    println("The following minimal cycle found:")
    cycles.foreach(c => println(c.mkString))
    println(s"Total: ${cycles.size} cycle found")
  }

输出是

The following minimal cycle found:
012
Total: 1 cycle found

我无意中发现了下面的算法，它似乎比Johnson的算法更有效(至少对于更大的图)。然而，与Tarjan的算法相比，我不确定它的性能如何。 此外，到目前为止，我只检查了三角形。如果感兴趣，请参阅千叶Norishige和西泽木高雄(http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/0214017)的“树状性和子图列表算法”

我在搜索中找到了这个页面，由于循环与强连接组件不相同，我继续搜索，最后，我找到了一个高效的算法，它列出了有向图的所有(基本)循环。这篇论文来自唐纳德·b·约翰逊(Donald B. Johnson)，可以在以下链接中找到:

http://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/150GA/homeworks/hw1/Johnson%2075.PDF

java实现可以在下面找到:

http://normalisiert.de/code/java/elementaryCycles.zip

约翰逊算法的Mathematica演示可以在这里找到，实现可以从右边下载(“下载作者代码”)。

注:实际上，这个问题有很多算法。本文列举了其中一些:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/0205007

根据文章，Johnson的算法是最快的。

http://www.me.utexas.edu/~bard/IP/Handouts/cycles.pdf

我发现解决这个问题的最简单的选择是使用名为networkx的python库。

它实现了这个问题的最佳答案中提到的约翰逊算法，但它的执行非常简单。

简而言之，你需要以下几点:

import networkx as nx
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Create Directed Graph
G=nx.DiGraph()

# Add a list of nodes:
G.add_nodes_from(["a","b","c","d","e"])

# Add a list of edges:
G.add_edges_from([("a","b"),("b","c"), ("c","a"), ("b","d"), ("d","e"), ("e","a")])

#Return a list of cycles described as a list o nodes
list(nx.simple_cycles(G))

答案:[['a'， 'b'， 'd'， 'e']， ['a'， 'b'， 'c']]