On self duality of pathwidth in polyhedral graph embeddings

نویسندگان

  • Fedor V. Fomin
  • Dimitrios M. Thilikos
چکیده

Let G be a 3-connected planar graph and G∗ be its dual. We show that the pathwidth of G∗ is at most 6 times the pathwidth of G. We prove this result by relating the pathwidth of a graph with the cut-width of its medial graph and we extend it to bounded genus embeddings. We also show that there exist 3-connected planar graphs such that the pathwidth of such a graph is at least 1.5 times the pathwidth of its dual. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 55: 42–54, 2007

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of Graph Theory

دوره 55  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007