@InProceedings{holm_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2017.50, author = {Holm, Jacob and Italiano, Giuseppe F. and Karczmarz, Adam and Lacki, Jakub and Rotenberg, Eva and Sankowski, Piotr}, title = {{Contracting a Planar Graph Efficiently}}, booktitle = {25th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2017)}, pages = {50:1--50:15}, 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.2017.50}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-78755}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2017.50}, annote = {Keywords: planar graphs, algorithms, data structures, connectivity, coloring} }