A Linear Algorithm for the Pathwidth of Trees

The pathwidth is a graph parameter only recently studied but closely related to other characteristics of graphs like tree, band- or cutwidth, interval thickness or search number ([S]). The graphs considered here are finite, undirected and simple. First the preliminaries are given. Section 2 contains our main results on the pathwidth of trees, the basis for the algorithm described in section 3.

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