Twin-width of Planar Graphs is at most 8, and at most 6 when Bipartite Planar

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.75" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.75</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.75" target="_blank" >10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.75</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Twin-width of Planar Graphs is at most 8, and at most 6 when Bipartite Planar

Original language description

Twin-width is a structural width parameter introduced by Bonnet, Kim, Thomassé and Watrigant [FOCS 2020]. Very briefly, its essence is a gradual reduction (a contraction sequence) of the given graph down to a single vertex while maintaining limited difference of neighbourhoods of the vertices, and it can be seen as widely generalizing several other traditional structural parameters. Having such a sequence at hand allows us to solve many otherwise hard problems efficiently. Graph classes of bounded twin-width, in which appropriate contraction sequences are efficiently constructible, are thus of interest in combinatorics and in computer science. However, we currently do not know in general how to obtain a witnessing contraction sequence of low width efficiently, and published upper bounds on the twin-width in non-trivial cases are often "astronomically large". We focus on planar graphs, which are known to have bounded twin-width (already since the introduction of twin-width), but the first explicit "non-astronomical" upper bounds on the twin-width of planar graphs appeared just a year ago; namely the bound of at most 183 by Jacob and Pilipczuk [arXiv, January 2022], and 583 by Bonnet, Kwon and Wood [arXiv, February 2022]. Subsequent arXiv manuscripts in 2022 improved the bound down to 37 (Bekos et al.), 11 and 9 (both by Hliněný). We further elaborate on the approach used in the latter manuscripts, proving that the twin-width of every planar graph is at most 8, and construct a witnessing contraction sequence in linear time. Note that the currently best lower-bound planar example is of twin-width 7, by Král' and Lamaison [arXiv, September 2022]. We also prove that the twin-width of every bipartite planar graph is at most 6, and again construct a witnessing contraction sequence in linear time.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)

ISBN

9783959772785

ISSN

1868-8969

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

„75:1“-„75:18“

Publisher name

Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{"u}r Informatik

Place of publication

Dagstuhl, Germany

Event location

Dagstuhl, Germany

Event date

Jan 1, 2023

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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