A 2-approximation for the height of maximal outerplanar graph drawings

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-62127-2_13zbMATH Open1491.68134OpenAlexW2528943235MaRDI QIDQ2405282FDOQ2405282

Authors Philippe Demontigny, Therese Biedl

Publication date 22 September 2017

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01719

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science (68R10) Approximation algorithms (68W25)

Abstract: In this paper, we study planar drawings of maximal outerplanar graphs with the objective of achieving small height. A recent paper gave an algorithm for such drawings that is within a factor of 4 of the optimum height. In this paper, we substantially improve the approximation factor to become 2. The main ingredient is to define a new parameter of outerplanar graphs (the so-called umbrella depth, obtained by recursively splitting the graph into graphs called umbrellas). We argue that the height of any poly-line drawing must be at least the umbrella depth, and then devise an algorithm that achieves height at most twice the umbrella depth.

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