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A Polynomial-time Algorithm for Outerplanar Diameter Improvement

Data Structures and Algorithms 2014-05-26 v3 Discrete Mathematics Combinatorics

Abstract

The Outerplanar Diameter Improvement problem asks, given a graph GG and an integer DD, whether it is possible to add edges to GG in a way that the resulting graph is outerplanar and has diameter at most DD. We provide a dynamic programming algorithm that solves this problem in polynomial time. Outerplanar Diameter Improvement demonstrates several structural analogues to the celebrated and challenging Planar Diameter Improvement problem, where the resulting graph should, instead, be planar. The complexity status of this latter problem is open.

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@article{arxiv.1403.5702,
  title  = {A Polynomial-time Algorithm for Outerplanar Diameter Improvement},
  author = {Nathann Cohen and Daniel Gonçalves and Eun Jung Kim and Christophe Paul and Ignasi Sau and Dimitrios M. Thilikos and Mathias Weller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.5702},
  year   = {2014}
}

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24 pages

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