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On the Euclidean dimension of graphs

Metric Geometry 2015-01-05 v1

Abstract

The Euclidean dimension a graph GG is defined to be the smallest integer dd such that the vertices of GG can be located in Rd\mathbb{R}^d in such a way that two vertices are unit distance apart if and only if they are adjacent in GG. In this paper we determine the Euclidean dimension for twelve well known graphs. Five of these graphs, D\"{u}rer, Franklin, Desargues, Heawood and Tietze can be embedded in the plane, while the remaining graphs, Chv\'{a}tal, Goldner-Harrary, Herschel, Fritsch, Gr\"{o}tzsch, Hoffman and Soifer have Euclidean dimension 33. We also present explicit embeddings for all these graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1501.00204,
  title  = {On the Euclidean dimension of graphs},
  author = {Jin Hyup Hong and Dan Ismailescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.00204},
  year   = {2015}
}