Planar graph decomposition and all pairs shortest paths

  • Authors:
  • Greg N. Frederickson

  • Affiliations:
  • Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

An algorithm is presented for generating a succinct encoding of all pairs shortest path information in a directed planar graph G with real-valued edge costs but no negative cycles. The algorithm runs in O(pn) time, where n is the number of vertices in G, and p is the minimum cardinality of a subset of the faces that cover all vertices, taken over all planar embeddings of G. The algorithm is based on a decomposition of the graph into O(pn) outerplanar subgraphs satisfying certain separator properties. Linear-time algorithms are presented for various subproblems including that of finding an appropriate embedding of G and a corresponding face-on-vertex covering of cardinality O(p), and of generating all pairs shortest path information in a directed outerplannar graph.