@InProceedings{bumpus_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2022.30, author = {Bumpus, Benjamin Merlin and Jansen, Bart M. P. and de Kroon, Jari J. H.}, title = {{Search-Space Reduction via Essential Vertices}}, booktitle = {30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)}, pages = {30:1--30:15}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-247-1}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2022}, volume = {244}, editor = {Chechik, Shiri and Navarro, Gonzalo and Rotenberg, Eva 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.2022.30}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-169687}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.30}, annote = {Keywords: fixed-parameter tractability, essential vertices, covering versus packing} }