We present a decremental data structure for maintaining the SPQR-tree of a planar graph subject to edge contractions and deletions. The update time, amortized over Omega(n) operations, is O(log^2 n). Via SPQR-trees, we give a decremental data structure for maintaining 3-vertex connectivity in planar graphs. It answers queries in O(1) time and processes edge deletions and contractions in O(log^2 n) amortized time. The previous best supported deletions and insertions in O(sqrt{n}) time.
@InProceedings{holm_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2018.46, author = {Holm, Jacob and Italiano, Giuseppe F. and Karczmarz, Adam and Lacki, Jakub and Rotenberg, Eva}, title = {{Decremental SPQR-trees for Planar Graphs}}, booktitle = {26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018)}, pages = {46:1--46:16}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-081-1}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2018}, volume = {112}, editor = {Azar, Yossi and Bast, Hannah and Herman, Grzegorz}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.46}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-95091}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.46}, annote = {Keywords: Graph embeddings, data structures, graph algorithms, planar graphs, SPQR-trees, triconnectivity} }
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