Brief Announcement: New Distributed Interactive Proofs for Planarity: A Matter of Left and Right

We provide new distributed interactive proofs (DIP) for planarity and related graph families. The notion of a distributed interactive proof (DIP) was introduced by Kol, Oshman, and Saxena (PODC 2018). In this setting, the verifier consists of n nodes connected by a communication graph G. The prover is a single entity that communicates with all nodes by short messages. The goal is to verify that the graph G satisfies a certain property (e.g., planarity) in a small number of rounds, and with a small communication bound, denoted as the proof size.