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On the bar visibility number of complete bipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2019-05-07 v1

Abstract

A tt-bar visibility representation of a graph assigns each vertex up to tt horizontal bars in the plane so that two vertices are adjacent if and only if some bar for one vertex can see some bar for the other via an unobstructed vertical channel of positive width. The least tt such that GG has a tt-bar visibility representation is the bar visibility number of GG, denoted by b(G)b(G). For the complete bipartite graph Km,nK_{m,n}, the lower bound b(Km,n)mn+42m+2nb(K_{m,n})\ge\lceil{\frac{mn+4}{2m+2n}}\rceil from Euler's Formula is well known. We prove that equality holds.

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@article{arxiv.1905.01874,
  title  = {On the bar visibility number of complete bipartite graphs},
  author = {Weiting Cao and Douglas B. West and Yan Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.01874},
  year   = {2019}
}

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16 pages, 6 figures