@InProceedings{chang_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.25, author = {Chang, Hsien-Chih and Cossarini, Marcos and Erickson, Jeff}, title = {{Lower Bounds for Electrical Reduction on Surfaces}}, booktitle = {35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019)}, pages = {25:1--25:16}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-104-7}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2019}, volume = {129}, editor = {Barequet, Gill and Wang, Yusu}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.25}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-104294}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.25}, annote = {Keywords: electrical transformation, Delta-Y-transformation, homotopy, tight, defect, SPQR-tree, smoothings, routing set, 2-flipping} }