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Parameterized Algorithms for Upward Planarity

Computational Geometry 2022-03-11 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

We obtain new parameterized algorithms for the classical problem of determining whether a directed acyclic graph admits an upward planar drawing. Our results include a new fixed-parameter algorithm parameterized by the number of sources, an XP-algorithm parameterized by treewidth, and a fixed-parameter algorithm parameterized by treedepth. All three algorithms are obtained using a novel framework for the problem that combines SPQR tree-decompositions with parameterized techniques. Our approach unifies and pushes beyond previous tractability results for the problem on series-parallel digraphs, single-source digraphs and outerplanar digraphs.

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@article{arxiv.2203.05364,
  title  = {Parameterized Algorithms for Upward Planarity},
  author = {Steven Chaplick and Emilio Di Giacomo and Fabrizio Frati and Robert Ganian and Chrysanthi N. Raftopoulou and Kirill Simonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.05364},
  year   = {2022}
}

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To appear at the 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022)

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