Obtaining planarity by contracting few edges

  • Authors:
  • Petr A. Golovach;Pim van 't Hof;Daniël Paulusma

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway;Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway;School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Durham University, UK

  • Venue:
  • MFCS'12 Proceedings of the 37th international conference on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The Planar Contraction problem is to test whether a given graph can be made planar by using at most k edge contractions. This problem is known to be NP-complete. We show that it is fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by k.