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A graph whose vertices are points in the plane and whose edges are noncrossing straight-line segments of unit length is called a \emph{matchstick graph}. We prove two somewhat counterintuitive results concerning the maximum number of edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Panna Gehér , János Pach , Konrad Swanepoel , Géza Tóth

A drawing of a graph is $k$-plane if every edge contains at most $k$ crossings. A $k$-plane drawing is saturated if we cannot add any edge so that the drawing remains $k$-plane. It is well-known that saturated $0$-plane drawings, that is,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-30 János Barát , Géza Tóth

We settle a problem of Dujmovi\'c, Eppstein, Suderman, and Wood by showing that there exists a function $f$ with the property that every planar graph $G$ with maximum degree $d$ admits a drawing with noncrossing straight-line edges, using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-13 Balázs Keszegh , János Pach , Dömötör Pálvölgyi

The number of embeddings of minimally rigid graphs in $\mathbb{R}^D$ is (by definition) finite, modulo rigid transformations, for every generic choice of edge lengths. Even though various approaches have been proposed to compute it, the gap…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Evangelos Bartzos , Ioannis Emiris , Jan Legerský , Elias Tsigaridas

We explore various techniques for counting the number of straight-edge crossing-free graphs that can be embedded on a planar point set. In particular, we derive a lower bound on the ratio of the number of such graphs with $m+1$ edges to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Siddharth Prasad

A graph is near-planar if it can be obtained from a planar graph by adding an edge. We show the surprising fact that it is NP-hard to compute the crossing number of near-planar graphs. A graph is 1-planar if it has a drawing where every…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-03-28 Sergio Cabello , Bojan Mohar

Given two planar graphs that are defined on the same set of vertices, a RAC simultaneous drawing is one in which each graph is drawn planar, there are no edge overlaps and the crossings between the two graphs form right angles. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Michael A. Bekos , Thomas C. van Dijk , Philipp Kindermann , Alexander Wolff

This paper studies the problem of computing quasi-upward planar drawings of bimodal plane digraphs with minimum curve complexity, i.e., drawings such that the maximum number of bends per edge is minimized. We prove that every bimodal plane…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Carla Binucci , Emilio Di Giacomo , Giuseppe Liotta , Alessandra Tappini

A graph on $n \ge 3$ vertices drawn in the plane such that each edge is crossed at most four times has at most $6(n-2)$ edges -- this result proven by Ackerman is outstanding in the literature of beyond-planar graphs with regard to its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Aaron Büngener

Recently, there has been interest in representing single graphs by multiple drawings; for example, using graph stories, storyplans, or uncrossed collections. In this paper, we apply this idea to orthogonal graph drawing. Due to the…

A recent result of Chepoi, Estellon and Vaxes [DCG '07] states that any planar graph of diameter at most 2R can be covered by a constant number of balls of size R; put another way, there are a constant-sized subset of vertices within which…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Glencora Borradaile , Erin Wolf Chambers

We study the problem of embedding graphs in the plane as good geometric spanners. That is, for a graph $G$, the goal is to construct a straight-line drawing $\Gamma$ of $G$ in the plane such that, for any two vertices $u$ and $v$ of $G$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Oswin Aichholzer , Manuel Borrazzo , Prosenjit Bose , Jean Cardinal , Fabrizio Frati , Pat Morin , Birgit Vogtenhuber

A straight-line drawing $\delta$ of a planar graph $G$ need not be plane, but can be made so by moving some of the vertices. Let shift$(G,\delta)$ denote the minimum number of vertices that need to be moved to turn $\delta$ into a plane…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-11-06 Xavier Goaoc , Jan Kratochvil , Yoshio Okamoto , Chan-Su Shin , Alexander Wolff

Define a boundary point of a graph which is embedded in the Euclidean plane a vertex which is incident to only one edge. In this paper we consider graphs which are embedded in the Euclidean plane with a finite number of boundary points. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-12 Yashar Memarian

A straight-line drawing $\delta$ of a planar graph $G$ need not be plane, but can be made so by \emph{untangling} it, that is, by moving some of the vertices of $G$. Let shift$(G,\delta)$ denote the minimum number of vertices that need to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-01-27 Xavier Goaoc , Jan Kratochvil , Yoshio Okamoto , Chan-Su Shin , Andreas Spillner , Alexander Wolff

We describe a construction for embeddings of complete graphs where the dual has a cutvertex and the genus is close to the minimum genus of the primal graph. When the number of vertices is congruent to 5 modulo 12, we further guarantee that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Timothy Sun

Strictly-convex straight-line drawings of $3$-connected planar graphs in small area form a classical research topic in Graph Drawing. Currently, the best-known area bound for such drawings is $O(n^2) \times O(n^2)$, as shown by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Michael A. Bekos , Martin Gronemann , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Antonios Symvonis

When can a plane graph with prescribed edge lengths and prescribed angles (from among $\{0,180^\circ, 360^\circ$\}) be folded flat to lie in an infinitesimally thin line, without crossings? This problem generalizes the classic theory of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Zachary Abel , Erik D. Demaine , Martin L. Demaine , David Eppstein , Anna Lubiw , Ryuhei Uehara

A non-aligned drawing of a graph is a drawing where no two vertices are in the same row or column. Auber et al. showed that not all planar graphs have non-aligned drawings that are straight-line, planar, and in the minimal-possible $n\times…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Therese Biedl , Claire Pennarun

We show that any planar drawing of a forest of three stars whose vertices are constrained to be at fixed vertex locations may require $\Omega(n^\frac{2}{3})$ edges each having $\Omega(n^\frac{1}{3})$ bends in the worst case. The lower bound…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Emilio Di Giacomo , Leszek Gasieniec , Giuseppe Liotta , Alfredo Navarra