@InProceedings{bougeret_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.16, author = {Bougeret, Marin and Jansen, Bart M. P. and Sau, Ignasi}, title = {{Bridge-Depth Characterizes Which Structural Parameterizations of Vertex Cover Admit a Polynomial Kernel}}, booktitle = {47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020)}, pages = {16:1--16:19}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-138-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {168}, editor = {Czumaj, Artur and Dawar, Anuj and Merelli, Emanuela}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.16}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-124238}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.16}, annote = {Keywords: vertex cover, parameterized complexity, polynomial kernel, structural parameterization, bridge-depth} }