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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2019.79
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-112001
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2019/11200/
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Rollin, Jonathan ; Schlipf, Lena ; Schulz, André

Recognizing Planar Laman Graphs

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Abstract

Laman graphs are the minimally rigid graphs in the plane. We present two algorithms for recognizing planar Laman graphs. A simple algorithm with running time O(n^(3/2)) and a more complicated algorithm with running time O(n log^3 n) based on involved planar network flow algorithms. Both improve upon the previously fastest algorithm for general graphs by Gabow and Westermann [Algorithmica, 7(5-6):465 - 497, 1992] with running time O(n sqrt{n log n}).
To solve this problem we introduce two algorithms (with the running times stated above) that check whether for a directed planar graph G, disjoint sets S, T subseteq V(G), and a fixed k the following connectivity condition holds: for each vertex s in S there are k directed paths from s to T pairwise having only vertex s in common. This variant of connectivity seems interesting on its own.

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@InProceedings{rollin_et_al:LIPIcs:2019:11200,
  author =	{Jonathan Rollin and Lena Schlipf and Andr{\'e} Schulz},
  title =	{{Recognizing Planar Laman Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{27th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2019)},
  pages =	{79:1--79:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-124-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{144},
  editor =	{Michael A. Bender and Ola Svensson and Grzegorz Herman},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/11200},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-112001},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2019.79},
  annote =	{Keywords: planar graphs, Laman graphs, network flow, connectivity}
}

Keywords: planar graphs, Laman graphs, network flow, connectivity
Collection: 27th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2019)
Issue Date: 2019
Date of publication: 06.09.2019

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