: Let G be a 3-connected planar graph and G∗ be its dual. We show that the pathwidth of G∗ is at most 6 times the pathwidth of G. We prove this result by relating the pathwidth of a graph with the cut-width of its medial graph and we extend it to bounded genus embeddings. We also show that there exist 3-connected planar graphs such that the pathwidth
Fedor V. Fomin, Dimitrios M. Thilikos