On approximating a vertex cover for planar graphs

  • Authors:
  • R. Bar-Yehuda;S. Even

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • STOC '82 Proceedings of the fourteenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

The approximation problem for vertex cover of n-vertex planar graphs is treated. Two results are presented: (1) A linear time approximation algorithm for which the (error) performance bound is 2/3. (2) An O(n log n) time approximation scheme.