Nested Dissection for Sparse Nullspace Bases

Abstract
The authors propose a nested dissection approach to finding a fundamental cycle basis in a planar graph. The cycle basis corresponds to a fundamental nullspace basis of the adjacency matrix. This problem is meant to model sparse nullspace basis computations occurring in a variety of settings. An $O( n^{3/2} )$ bound is achieved on the nullspace basis size (i.e., the number of nonzero entries in the basis), and $O( n\log n )$ an bound on the size in the special case of grid graphs.

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