Two-Layer planarization: improving on parameterized algorithmics

  • Authors:
  • Henning Fernau

  • Affiliations:
  • WSI für Informatik, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SOFSEM'05 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Theory and Practice of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A bipartite graph is biplanar if the vertices can be placed on two parallel lines in the plane such that there are no edge crossings when edges are drawn as straight-line segments. We study two problems:2-Layer Planarization: can k edges be deleted from a given graph G so that the remaining graph is biplanar? 1-Layer Planarization: same question, but the order of the vertices on one layer is fixed. Improving on earlier works of Dujmović et al. [4], we solve the 2-Layer Planarization problem in $\mathcal{O}(k^{2}\cdot 5.1926^{k} +|G|)$ time and the 1-Layer Planarization problem in $\mathcal{O}(k^{3} \cdot 2.5616^{k} + |G|^{2})$ time. Moreover, we derive a small problem kernel for 1-Layer Planarization.