Disjoint edges in geometric graphs
Combinatorics
2022-08-31 v2 Computational Geometry
Abstract
A geometric graph is a graph drawn in the plane so that its vertices and edges are represented by points in general position and straight line segments, respectively. A vertex of a geometric graph is called pointed if it lies outside of the convex hull of its neighbours. We show that for a geometric graph with vertices and edges there are at least pairs of disjoint edges provided that and all the vertices of the graph are pointed. Besides, we prove that if any edge of a geometric graph with vertices is disjoint from at most edges, then the number of edges of this graph does not exceed provided that is sufficiently large. These two results are tight for an infinite family of graphs.
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@article{arxiv.2111.05425,
title = {Disjoint edges in geometric graphs},
author = {Nikita Chernega and Alexandr Polyanskii and Rinat Sadykov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.05425},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
v2: 12 pages, 5 figures. Final version