%T Efficient Sequential and Parallel Algorithms for the Negative Cycle Problem %A Dimitrios Kavvadias %A Grammati E. Pantziou %A Paul G. Spirakis %A Christos D. Zaroliagis %R Technical Report PCS-TR94-206 %I Dartmouth College, Computer Science %C Hanover, NH %D 1994 %U http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR94-206.pdf %X We present here an algorithm for detecting (and outputting, if exists) a negative cycle in an $n$-vertex planar digraph $G$ with real edge weights. Its running time ranges from $O(n)$ up to $O(n^{1.5}\log n)$ as a certain topological measure of $G$ varies from $1$ up to $\Theta(n)$. Moreover, an efficient CREW PRAM implementation is given. Our algorithm applies also to digraphs whose genus $\gamma$ is $o(n)$.