@InProceedings{gutin_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2017.47, author = {Gutin, Gregory and Ramanujan, M. S. and Reidl, Felix and Wahlstr\"{o}m, Magnus}, title = {{Path-Contractions, Edge Deletions and Connectivity Preservation}}, booktitle = {25th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2017)}, pages = {47:1--47:13}, 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.2017.47}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-78270}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2017.47}, annote = {Keywords: connectivity, strong connectivity, vertex deletion, arc contraction} }