Faces in rectilinear drawings of complete graphs
Abstract
We initiate the study of extremal problems about faces in convex rectilinear drawings of~, that is, drawings where vertices are represented by points in the plane in convex position and edges by line segments between the points representing the end-vertices. We show that if a convex rectilinear drawing of does not contain a common interior point of at least three edges, then there is always a face forming a convex 5-gon while there are such drawings without any face forming a convex -gon with . A convex rectilinear drawing of is \emph{regular} if its vertices correspond to vertices of a regular convex -gon. We characterize positive integers for which regular drawings of contain a face forming a convex 5-gon. To our knowledge, this type of problems has not been considered in the literature before and so we also pose several new natural open problems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.00313,
title = {Faces in rectilinear drawings of complete graphs},
author = {Martin Balko and Anna Brötzner and Fabian Klute and Josef Tkadlec},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.00313},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
21 pages, 11 figures