Planarity of Mycielski-like graph expansions
Combinatorics
2025-05-15 v1
Abstract
For a graph , we define its great shadow as a construction that duplicates each vertex in and sets this duplicated vertex adjacent to and all neighbors of . Great graph shadows arise naturally in the routing of diode-and-switch circuits for computer keyboards, and are closely related to the Mycielski operation. These diode-and-switch circuits can be routed on a single-sided printed-circuit board if and only if the corresponding great shadow is planar. In this paper, we characterize all graphs with planar great shadows. Such graphs are always bipartite cactus graphs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.09534,
title = {Planarity of Mycielski-like graph expansions},
author = {Devansh Vimal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.09534},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
11 pages, 7 figures