The unavoidable drawings of complete multipartite graphs
Combinatorics
2025-09-26 v1
Abstract
In a simple drawing of a graph every pair of edges intersect each other in at most one point, which is either a common endvertex or a proper crossing. For each positive integer , Negami identified a drawing of the complete bipartite graph , and proved that if is sufficiently large, then every drawing of contains a drawing of weakly isomorphic to . Thus is (up to weak isomorphism) the only {\em unavoidable} drawing of . We extend this result to complete multipartite graphs, characterizing their unavoidable drawings.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2509.20625,
title = {The unavoidable drawings of complete multipartite graphs},
author = {Jozsef Balogh and Irene Parada and Gelasio Salazar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.20625},
year = {2025}
}