Disk Packings and Planar Separators

Authors: Daniel A. Spielman and Shang-Hua Teng.

Bibliographic Information: Appeared in SCG 96: 12th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, pages 349-358.

Abstract:

We demonstrate that the geometric separator algorithm of Miller, Teng, Thurston, and Vavasis finds a $3/4$-separator of size $1.84\sqrt{n}$ in every $n$ node planar graph.
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Daniel A. Spielman
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