Simple realizability of complete abstract topological graphs simplified
Abstract
An abstract topological graph (briefly an AT-graph) is a pair where is a graph and is a set of pairs of its edges. The AT-graph is simply realizable if can be drawn in the plane so that each pair of edges from crosses exactly once and no other pair crosses. We show that simply realizable complete AT-graphs are characterized by a finite set of forbidden AT-subgraphs, each with at most six vertices. This implies a straightforward polynomial algorithm for testing simple realizability of complete AT-graphs, which simplifies a previous algorithm by the author. We also show an analogous result for independent -realizability, where only the parity of the number of crossings for each pair of independent edges is specified.
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@article{arxiv.1608.05867,
title = {Simple realizability of complete abstract topological graphs simplified},
author = {Jan Kynčl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.05867},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
26 pages, 17 figures; major revision; original Section 5 removed and will be included in another paper