Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009, Volume 5555/2009, 764-773, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02927-1_63

Computing the Girth of a Planar Graph in O(n logn) Time

Oren Weimann and Raphael Yuster

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Abstract

We give an O(n logn) algorithm for computing the girth (shortest cycle) of an undirected n-vertex planar graph. Our solution extends to any graph of bounded genus. This improves upon the best previously known algorithms for this problem.

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