Computing the Stretch of an Embedded Graph
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| Year of publication | 2013 | 
| Type | Article in Proceedings | 
| Conference | XV Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry | 
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| web | sbornik | 
| Field | General mathematics | 
| Description | We provide two algorithms to compute the stretch of an embedded graph, each based on a different principle. The first algorithm is based on surgery and computes the stretch in time $O(g^4 n \log n)$ with high probability, or in time $O(g^4 n \log^2 n)$ in the worst case, where $g$ is the genus of the surface $\Sigma$ and $n$ is the number of vertices in $G$. The second algorithm is based on using a short homology basis and computes the stretch in time $O(n^2\log n + n^2g + ng^3)$. | 
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