Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
436921 Theoretical Computer Science 2013 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

The Planar Contraction problem is to test whether a given graph can be made planar by using at most k edge contractions. This problem is known to be NP-complete. We show that it is fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by k.

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