Title
On the Power of Isolation in Planar Graphs
Abstract
We study (deterministic) isolation for certain structures in directed and undirected planar graphs. The motivation for undertaking such a study comes from recent positive results on this topic. For example: Bourke et al. [2009] isolate a directed path in planar graphs and subsequently Datta et al. [2010b] isolate a perfect matching in bipartite planar graphs. Our first observation is that sufficiently strong (and plausible) isolations for certain structures in planar graphs would have strong consequences such as: NL ⊆ ⊕L, Bipartite-Matching ∈ NC, and NP ⊆ ⊕P. Our second observation is that although we do not yet have such strong isolations for arbitrary planar graphs, we do have them for bipartite planar graphs, that is, non-bipartiteness is the main bottleneck.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2003685.2003687
TOCT
Keywords
Field
DocType
certain structure,arbitrary planar graph,planar graphs,undirected planar graph,planar graph,perfect matching,recent positive result,main bottleneck,strong consequence,strong isolation,bipartite planar graph,bipartite matching,nc
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Indifference graph,Robertson–Seymour theorem,Clique-sum,Chordal graph,Book embedding,Pathwidth,1-planar graph,Metric dimension,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
3
1
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
14
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Raghav Kulkarni117219.48