Stack and Queue Numbers of Graphs Revisited

Abstract: A long-standing question of the mutual relation between the stack and queue numbers of a graph, explicitly emphasized by Dujmovi\'c and Wood in 2005, was "half-answered" by Dujmovi\'c, Eppstein, Hickingbotham, Morin and Wood in 2022; they proved the existence of a graph family with the queue number at most 4 but unbounded stack number. We give an alternative very short, and still elementary, proof of the same fact.