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Topological bandwidth. (English) Zbl 0573.05052
The authors present a number of results on comparison of the topological bandwidth of a graph to other graphical invariant, such as cutwidth, modified cutwidth, search number, and node search number. For binary trees of order n, a 0(n log n) algorithm to compute their topological bandwidth is obtained. Further, it is shown that the problem, given a graph G and an integer k, whether the topological bandwidth of G is at most k is NP-complete (even when restricted to cubic graphs). It is also shown that the Min Cut Linear Arrangement problem, the Search number problem, the Modified Cutwidth problem, and the Node Search Number problem are NP-complete (even for graphs with max degree 3). Finally, graphs with topological bandwidth 2 are characterized, and an $$0(| G|^ k)$$ algorithm for deciding whether the topological bandwidth of a graph G is at most k is given.
Reviewer: J.Širáň

##### MSC:
 05C99 Graph theory 68Q25 Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity 05C10 Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory
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