The Thickness of Graphs: A Survey

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 23 Mar 1998 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Graphs and Combinatorics, volume 14, pages 59-73 (issn: 0911-0119,

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Authors: Petra Mutzel; Thomas Odenthal; Mark Scharbrodt;

doi: 10.1007/pl00007219

handle: 11858/00-001M-0000-000F-37FA-0

The Thickness of Graphs: A Survey

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Abstract

The study of the thickness parameter for graphs is surveyed, both in terms of theoretical results and practical computation. Three heuristics for planarization are compared, the approach being to iteratively extract possibly large planar subgraphs until a planar subgraph remains.

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Keywords

Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.), survey, planar subgraph, thickness, Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory

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