Edge contraction is shown to be a useful mechanism to improve lower bound heuristics for treewidth. A successful lower bound for treewidth is the degeneracy: the maximum over all ...
Hans L. Bodlaender, Arie M. C. A. Koster, Thomas W...
Let A be a d by n matrix, d < n. Let C be the regular cross polytope (octahedron) in Rn . It has recently been shown that properties of the centrosymmetric polytope P = AC are ...