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We prove that if $G$ is a graph with an minimal edge cut $F$ of size three and $G_1$, $G_2$ are the two (augmented) components of $G-F$, then the crossing number of $G$ is equal to the sum of crossing numbers of $G_1$ and $G_2$. Combining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-28 Drago Bokal , Markus Chimani , Jesús Leaños

A straight-line drawing of a graph $G$ is a mapping which assigns to each vertex a point in the plane and to each edge a straight-line segment connecting the corresponding two points. The rectilinear crossing number of a graph $G$,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Jacob Fox , Janos Pach , Andrew Suk

The {\it crossing number} of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of pairwise intersections of edges in a drawing of $G$. In this paper, we study the crossing numbers of $K_{m}\times P_n$ and $K_{m}\times C_n$.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-11-21 Yuansheng Yang , Baigong Zheng , Xirong Xu , Xiaohui Lin

Visualizing a graph $G$ in the plane nicely, for example, without crossings, is unfortunately not always possible. To address this problem, Masa\v{r}\'ik and Hlin\v{e}n\'y [GD 2023] recently asked for each edge of $G$ to be drawn without…

A graph $G$ is {$k$-crossing-critical} if $cr(G)\ge k$, but $cr(G\setminus e)<k$ for each edge $e\in E(G)$, where $cr(G)$ is the crossing number of $G$. It is known that for any $k$-crossing-critical graph $G$, $cr(G)\le 2.5k+16$ holds, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Zongpeng Ding , Zhangdong Ouyang , Yuanqiu Huang , Fengming Dong

A plane drawing of a graph is {\em cylindrical} if there exist two concentric circles that contain all the vertices of the graph, and no edge intersects (other than at its endpoints) any of these circles. The {\em cylindrical crossing…

Determining the crossing numbers of Cartesian products of small graphs with arbitrarily large paths has been an ongoing topic of research since the 1970s. Doing so requires the establishment of coincident upper and lower bounds; the former…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Zayed Asiri , Ryan Burdett , Markus Chimani , Michael Haythorpe , Alex Newcombe , Mirko H. Wagner

Given a fixed positive integer $k$, the $k$-planar local crossing number of a graph $G$, denoted by $\text{LCR}_k(G)$, is the minimum positive integer $L$ such that $G$ can be decomposed into $k$ subgraphs, each of which can be drawn in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-09 John Asplund , Thao do , Arran Hamm , Vishesh Jain

Let $G$ be a multigraph with $n$ vertices and $e>4n$ edges, drawn in the plane such that any two parallel edges form a simple closed curve with at least one vertex in its interior and at least one vertex in its exterior. Pach and T\'oth (A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Michael Kaufmann , Janos Pach , Geza Toth , Torsten Ueckerdt

The crossing number of a graph G is the minimum number of pairwise intersections of edges in a drawing of G. Motivated by the recent work [Faria, L., Figueiredo, C.M.H. de, Sykora, O., Vrt'o, I.: An improved upper bound on the crossing…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Baigong Zheng , Yuansheng Yang , Xirong Xu

The {\it crossing number} of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of pairwise intersections of edges in a drawing of $G$. Motivated by the recent work [Faria, L., Figueiredo, C.M.H. de, Sykora, O., Vrt'o, I.: An improved upper bound on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Haoli Wang , Xirong Xu , Yuansheng Yang , Bao Liu , Wenping Zheng , Guoqing Wang

In this paper, we introduce the following new concept in graph drawing. Our task is to find a small collection of drawings such that they all together satisfy some property that is useful for graph visualization. We propose investigating a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Petr Hliněný , Tomáš Masařík

A $c$-crossing-critical graph is one that has crossing number at least $c$ but each of its proper subgraphs has crossing number less than $c$. Recently, a set of explicit construction rules was identified by Bokal, Oporowski, Richter, and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Drago Bokal , Markus Chimani , Alexander Nover , Jöran Schierbaum , Tobias Stolzmann , Mirko H. Wagner , Tilo Wiedera

In this paper, we provide upper and lower bounds on the crossing numbers of dense graphs on surfaces, which match up to constant factors. First, we prove that if $G$ is a dense enough graph with $m$ edges and $\Sigma$ is a surface of genus…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Alfredo Hubard , Arnaud de Mesmay , Hugo Parlier

Introduced by Albertson et al. \cite{albertson}, the distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least integer $r$ such that there is a $r$-labeling of the vertices of $G$ that is not preserved by any nontrivial automorphism of $G$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Sylvain Gravier , Kahina Meslem , Souad Slimani

The {\it crossing number} of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of pairwise intersections of edges in a drawing of $G$. In this paper, we give the exact values of crossing numbers for some variations of hypercube with order at most four,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-08 Guoqing Wang , Haoli Wang , Yuansheng Yang

The crossing number of a graph is the minimum number of edge crossings that a graph can have when drawn in the plane. Determining this number, known as the Crossing Number problem, is a celebrated problem in combinatorial optimization. It…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Petr Hliněný , Liana Khazaliya

The current state of knowledge of genus g orientable crossing numbers of complete graphs through K11 is reviewed. It is shown that cr3(K10)=3, cr3(K11)<=14, and cr4(K11)=4. It is established with the aid of an algorithm that there are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Yoonah Lee

In 1958, Hill conjectured that the minimum number of crossings in a drawing of $K_n$ is exactly $Z(n) = \frac{1}{4} \lfloor\frac{n}{2}\rfloor \left\lfloor\frac{n-1}{2}\right\rfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-30 Martin Balko , Radoslav Fulek , Jan Kynčl

The crossing number of a graph is the minimum number of crossings over all of its drawings on the plane. The Crossing Lemma, proved more than 40 years ago, is a tight lower bound on the crossing number of a graph in terms of the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Geza Toth