Non-planar core reduction of graphs

Autor: Carsten Gutwenger, Markus Chimani
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Discrete Mathematics. 309(7):1838-1855
ISSN: 0012-365X
DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2007.12.078
Popis: We present a reduction method that reduces a graph to a smaller core graph which behaves invariant with respect to non-planarity measures like crossing number, skewness, coarseness, and thickness. The core reduction is based on the decomposition of a graph into its triconnected components and can be computed in linear time. It has applications in heuristic and exact optimization algorithms for the non-planarity measures mentioned above. Experimental results show that this strategy reduces the number of edges by 45% in average for a widely used benchmark set of graphs.
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