@InProceedings{kern_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.22, author = {Kern, Walter and Paulusma, Dani\"{e}l}, title = {{Contracting to a Longest Path in H-Free Graphs}}, booktitle = {31st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2020)}, pages = {22:1--22:18}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-173-3}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {181}, editor = {Cao, Yixin and Cheng, Siu-Wing and Li, Minming}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.22}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-133664}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.22}, annote = {Keywords: dichotomy, edge contraction, path, cycle, H-free graph} }