@InProceedings{he_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2021.52, author = {He, Zhiyang and Li, Jason and Wahlstr\"{o}m, Magnus}, title = {{Near-Linear-Time, Optimal Vertex Cut Sparsifiers in Directed Acyclic Graphs}}, booktitle = {29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021)}, pages = {52:1--52:14}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-204-4}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2021}, volume = {204}, editor = {Mutzel, Petra and Pagh, Rasmus and Herman, Grzegorz}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.52}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-146331}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.52}, annote = {Keywords: graph theory, vertex sparsifier, representative family, matroid} }