New upper bounds on the decomposability of planar graphs

  • Authors:
  • Fedor V. Fomin;Dimitrios M. Thilikos

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway;National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis, GR-15784, Athens, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Graph Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

It is known that a planar graph on n vertices has branch-width-tree-width bounded by $\alpha \sqrt {n}$. In many algorithmic applications, it is useful to have a small bound on the constant α. We give a proof of the best, so far, upper bound for the constant α. In particular, for the case of tree-width, α  The first author is supported by Norges forskningsråd projects 162731-V00 and 160778-V30. The second author is supported by the Spanish CICYT project TIN-2004-07925 (GRAMMARS).