@InProceedings{erickson_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.34, author = {Erickson, Jeff and Wang, Yipu}, title = {{Topologically Trivial Closed Walks in Directed Surface Graphs}}, booktitle = {35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019)}, pages = {34:1--34:17}, 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.2019.34}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-104383}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.34}, annote = {Keywords: computational topology, surface-embedded graphs, homotopy, homology, strong connectivity, hyperbolic geometry, medial axes, context-free grammars} }