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Planarity of Mycielski-like graph expansions

Combinatorics 2025-05-15 v1

Abstract

For a graph GG, we define its great shadow S(G)S(G) as a construction that duplicates each vertex vv in GG and sets this duplicated vertex adjacent to vv and all neighbors of vv. 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.

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@article{arxiv.2505.09534,
  title  = {Planarity of Mycielski-like graph expansions},
  author = {Devansh Vimal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.09534},
  year   = {2025}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures