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ItemOn the Connectivity of Visibility Graphs(SPRINGER, 2012-10-01)The visibility graph of a finite set of points in the plane has the points as vertices and an edge between two vertices if the line segment between them contains no other points. This paper establishes bounds on the edge- and vertex-connectivity of visibility graphs. Unless all its vertices are collinear, a visibility graph has diameter at most 2, and so it follows by a result of Plesn\'ik (1975) that its edge-connectivity equals its minimum degree. We strengthen the result of Plesn\'ik by showing that for any two vertices v and w in a graph of diameter 2, if deg(v) <= deg(w) then there exist deg(v) edge-disjoint vw-paths of length at most 4. Furthermore, we find that in visibility graphs every minimum edge cut is the set of edges incident to a vertex of minimum degree. For vertex-connectivity, we prove that every visibility graph with n vertices and at most l collinear vertices has connectivity at least (n-1)/(l-1), which is tight. We also prove the qualitatively stronger result that the vertex-connectivity is at least half the minimum degree. Finally, in the case that l=4 we improve this bound to two thirds of the minimum degree.
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ItemA Linear-Time Algorithm to Find a Separator in a Graph Excluding a Minor(ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, 2009-10-01)Let G be an n -vertex m -edge graph with weighted vertices. A pair of vertex sets A , B ⊆ V ( G ) is a 2/3 -separation of order | A ∩ B | if A ∪ B = V ( G ), there is no edge between A − B and B − A , and both A − B and B − A have weight at most 2/3 the total weight of G . Let ℓ ∈ Z + be fixed. Alon et al. [1990] presented an algorithm that in O ( n 1/2 m ) time, outputs either a K ℓ -minor of G , or a separation of G of order O ( n 1/2 ). Whether there is a O ( n + m )-time algorithm for this theorem was left as an open problem. In this article, we obtain a O ( n + m )-time algorithm at the expense of a O ( n 2/3 ) separator. Moreover, our algorithm exhibits a trade-off between time complexity and the order of the separator. In particular, for any given ϵ ∈ [0,1/2], our algorithm outputs either a K ℓ -minor of G , or a separation of G with order O ( n (2−ϵ)/3 in O ( n 1 + ϵ + m ) time. As an application we give a fast approximation algorithm for finding an independent set in a graph with no K ℓ-minor.
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ItemLayout of graphs with bounded tree-width(SIAM PUBLICATIONS, 2005-01-01)
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ItemSimultaneous diagonal flips in plane triangulations(WILEY, 2007-04-01)
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ItemIrreducible triangulations are small(ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2010-09-01)
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ItemContractibility and the Hadwiger Conjecture(ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2010-12-01)
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ItemDrawings of planar graphs with few slopes and segments(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2007-10-01)
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ItemA fixed-parameter approach to 2-layer planarization(SPRINGER, 2006-06-01)
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ItemOn the metric dimension of cartesian products of graphs(SIAM PUBLICATIONS, 2007-01-01)