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A Schnyder-type drawing algorithm for 5-connected triangulations

Combinatorics 2023-09-01 v2 Computational Geometry

Abstract

We define some Schnyder-type combinatorial structures on a class of planar triangulations of the pentagon which are closely related to 5-connected triangulations. The combinatorial structures have three incarnations defined in terms of orientations, corner-labelings, and woods respectively. The wood incarnation consists in 5 spanning trees crossing each other in an orderly fashion. Similarly as for Schnyder woods on triangulations, it induces, for each vertex, a partition of the inner triangles into face-connected regions (5~regions here). We show that the induced barycentric vertex-placement, where each vertex is at the barycenter of the 5 outer vertices with weights given by the number of faces in each region, yields a planar straight-line drawing.

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@article{arxiv.2305.19058,
  title  = {A Schnyder-type drawing algorithm for 5-connected triangulations},
  author = {Olivier Bernardi and Éric Fusy and Shizhe Liang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.19058},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Appears in the Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2023)

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