every fixed k a linear-time algorithm for computing the k-edge-connected components of a given graph, solving a long-standing open problem. Our main technical result, from which the other results follow, is a k^{O(k^2)} m time algorithm for computing a so-called "k-lean tree decomposition" of a given graph.
The paper is available in arXiv at https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02658.