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Separating Thickness from Geometric Thickness

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v2 Computational Geometry Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We show that graph-theoretic thickness and geometric thickness are not asymptotically equivalent: for every t, there exists a graph with thickness three and geometric thickness >= t.

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@article{arxiv.math/0204252,
  title  = {Separating Thickness from Geometric Thickness},
  author = {David Eppstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0204252},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

12 pages, 8 figures. This revision incorporates suggestions of the referee and reformats to AMS CONM proceedings style