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Hardness of Planarity for Weak Temporal Sequences of 2-Connected Graphs

Combinatorics 2025-12-09 v1

Abstract

A weak deletion sequence is a sequence (G1,,Gn)(G_1,\ldots,G_n) of graphs so that for each i[n1]i\in[n-1] either GiG_i is isomorphic to a subgraph of Gi+1G_{i+1}, or vice versa: Gi+1G_{i+1} is isomorphic to a subgraph of GiG_i. We prove that determining the simultaneous planar embeddability of weak deletion sequences of 22-connected graphs is NP-hard.

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@article{arxiv.2512.06403,
  title  = {Hardness of Planarity for Weak Temporal Sequences of 2-Connected Graphs},
  author = {Johannes Carmesin and Will J. Turner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.06403},
  year   = {2025}
}

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21 pages, 9 figures