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On Visibility Graphs of Point Sets in the Plane

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The visibility graph Vis(X) of a discrete point set X in the plane has vertex set X and an edge xy for every two points x,y\in X whenever there is no other point in X on the line segment between x and y. We show that for every graph G, there is a point set X, such that the subgraph of Vis(X\cup Z^2) induced by X is isomorphic to G. As a consequence, we show that there are visibility graphs of arbitrary high chromatic number with clique number six settling a question by K\'{a}ra, P\'{o}r and Wood.

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@article{arxiv.math/0510467,
  title  = {On Visibility Graphs of Point Sets in the Plane},
  author = {F. Pfender},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0510467},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages

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