@InProceedings{blum_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2020.20, author = {Blum, Johannes and Storandt, Sabine}, title = {{Lower Bounds and Approximation Algorithms for Search Space Sizes in Contraction Hierarchies}}, booktitle = {28th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2020)}, pages = {20:1--20:14}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-162-7}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {173}, editor = {Grandoni, Fabrizio and Herman, Grzegorz and Sanders, Peter}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2020.20}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-128861}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2020.20}, annote = {Keywords: contraction hierarchies, search space size, balanced separator, tree decomposition} }