On-line maintenance of the four-connected components of a graph

[1991] Proceedings 32nd Annual Symposium of Foundations of Computer Science Pub Date : 1991-09-01 DOI:10.1109/SFCS.1991.185451

A. Kanevsky, R. Tamassia, G. Battista, Jianer Chen

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Given a graph G with n vertices and m edges, a k-connectivity query for vertices v' and v" of G asks whether there exist k disjoint paths between v' and v". The authors consider the problem of performing k-connectivity queries for k>

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