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A polynomial delay algorithm generating all potential maximal cliques in triconnected planar graphs

Data Structures and Algorithms 2025-10-14 v3

Abstract

We develop a new characterization of potential maximal cliques of a triconnected planar graph and, using this characterization, give a polynomial delay algorithm generating all potential maximal cliques of a given triconnected planar graph. Combined with the dynamic programming algorithms due to Bouchitt{\'e} and Todinca, this algorithm leads to a treewidth algorithm for general planar graphs that runs in time linear in the number of potential maximal cliques and polynomial in the number of vertices.

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@article{arxiv.2506.12635,
  title  = {A polynomial delay algorithm generating all potential maximal cliques in triconnected planar graphs},
  author = {Alexander Grigoriev and Yasuaki Kobayashi and Hisao Tamaki and Tom C. van der Zanden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.12635},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

20 pages, 5 figures. A version with some omitted proofs is to appear in IPEC 2025 post-conference proceedings

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