Linear-time computation of the tetra-separation decomposition

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Let GG be a 4-connected finite graph with nn vertices and mm edges. The linear-time decomposition algorithm conjecture. There is an algorithm that returns the tetra-separation decomposition of GG from the main decomposition theorem in time

O(n+m).\mathcal{O}(n+m).

The claim is motivated by the existence of algorithms constructing 5-lean tree-decompositions of finite graphs in parameterized near-linear time. It remains an algorithmic conjecture because the source states that the proposed linear-time conversion to the tetra-separation decomposition is believed to exist, rather than proving it.

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Jan Kurkofka and Tim Planken, “A Tutte-type canonical decomposition of 3- and 4-connected graphs”, arXiv:2504.00760 (2026).

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