@InProceedings{goranci_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2017.44, author = {Goranci, Gramoz and Henzinger, Monika and Peng, Pan}, title = {{Improved Guarantees for Vertex Sparsification in Planar Graphs}}, booktitle = {25th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2017)}, pages = {44:1--44:14}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-049-1}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2017}, volume = {87}, editor = {Pruhs, Kirk and Sohler, Christian}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2017.44}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-78337}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2017.44}, annote = {Keywords: Vertex Sparsification, Graph Sparsification, Planar Graphs, Metric Embedding, Reachability} }