Planar graph bipartization in linear time

  • Authors:
  • Samuel Fiorini;Nadia Hardy;Bruce Reed;Adrian Vetta

  • Affiliations:
  • GERAD HEC Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada and Department of Mathematics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada;School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada;Department of Mathematics and Statistics and School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

For each constant k, we present a linear time algorithm that, given a planar graph G, either finds a minimum odd cycle vertex transversal in G or guarantees that there is no transversal of size at most k.