Minimal Schnyder Woods and Long Induced Paths in 3-Connected Planar Graphs
摘要
We investigate a new structural property of Schnyder woods: every minimal Schnyder wood of a 3-connected planar graph of order n has a tree of depth at least \( \log _2(n)/(3 \log _2(3)) \) . This bound is tight. Our result directly implies that such a graph has an induced path of length at least \( \log _2(n)/(3 \log _2(3)) \) , improving the previous best lower bound on the length of such a path.