Worst-case deterministic fully-dynamic biconnectivity in changeable planar embeddings

We study dynamic planar graphs with $n$ vertices, subject to edge deletion, edge contraction, edge insertion across a face, and the splitting of a vertex in specified corners. We dynamically maintain a combinatorial embedding of such a planar graph, subject to connectivity and 2-vertex-connectivity (biconnectivity) queries between pairs of vertices. Whenever a query pair is connected and not biconnected, we find the first and last cut vertex separating them. Additionally, we allow local changes to the embedding by flipping the embedding of a subgraph that is connected by at most two vertices to the rest of the graph. We support all queries and updates in deterministic, worst-case, $O(\log^2 n)$ time, using an $O(n)$-sized data structure.

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Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen)
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2024-12-20
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https://doi.org/10.20382/jocg.v15.i2.a7
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Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
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Worst-case deterministic fully-dynamic biconnectivity in changeable planar embeddings

Eva Rotenberg, Ivor van der Hoog, Jacob Holm
Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen)
Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
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Worst-case deterministic fully-dynamic biconnectivity in changeable planar embeddings

Eva Rotenberg, Ivor van der Hoog, Jacob Holm
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We study dynamic planar graphs with $n$ vertices, subject to edge deletion, edge contraction, edge insertion across a face, and the splitting of a vertex in specified corners. We dynamically maintain a combinatorial embedding of such a planar graph, subject to connectivity and 2-vertex-connectivity (biconnectivity) queries between pairs of vertices. Whenever a query pair is connected and not biconnected, we find the first and last cut vertex separating them. Additionally, we allow local changes to the embedding by flipping the embedding of a subgraph that is connected by at most two vertices to the rest of the graph. We support all queries and updates in deterministic, worst-case, $O(\log^2 n)$ time, using an $O(n)$-sized data structure.

Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen)
University of Copenhagen (DK), Technical University of Denmark (DK)
European Commission
Openalex Percentile: Top 44%
Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
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