Finding a maximum-genus graph imbedding

  • Authors:
  • Merrick L. Furst;Jonathan L. Gross;Lyle A. McGeoch

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA;Columbia Univ., New York, NY;Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

The computational complexity of constructing the imbeddings of a given graph into surfaces of different genus is not well understood. In this paper, topological methods and a reduction to linear matroid parity are used to develop a polynomial-time algorithm to find a maximum-genus cellular imbedding. This seems to be the first imbedding algorithm for which the running time is not exponential in the genus of the imbedding surface.