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A General Method for Efficient Embeddings of Graphs into Optimal Hypercubes

Volker Heun and Ernst W. Mayr


Embeddings of several graph classes into hypercubes have been widely studied. Unfortunately, almost all investigated graph classes are regular graphs such as meshes, complete trees, pyramids. In this paper, we present a general method for one-to-one embedding irregular graphs into their optimal hypercubes based on extended-edge-bisectors of graphs. An extended-edge-bisector is an edge-bisector with the additional property that a subset of the vertices is distributed more or less evenly among the two halves of the bisected graph. The dilation and congestion of the embedding depends on the quality of the extended-edge-bisector. Moreover, if the extended bisection can be efficiently computed on the hypercube, so can the embedding.