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We show that there are $O(n \cdot 4^{n/11})$ planar graphs on $n$ vertices which do not admit a simultaneous straight-line embedding on any $n$-point set in the plane. In particular, this improves the best known bound $O(n!)$ significantly.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Ritesh Goenka , Pardis Semnani , Chi Hoi Yip

We study dynamic planar graphs with $n$ vertices, subject to edge deletion, edge contraction, edge insertion across a face, and the splitting of a vertex in specified corners. We dynamically maintain a combinatorial embedding of such a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Jacob Holm , Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg

An EPG-representation of a graph $G$ is a collection of paths in a plane square grid, each corresponding to a single vertex of $G$, so that two vertices are adjacent if and only if their corresponding paths share infinitely many points. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Martin Pergel , Paweł Rzążewski

We give a series of new lower bounds on the minimum number of vertices required by a graph to contain every graph of a given family as induced subgraph. In particular, we show that this induced-universal graph for $n$-vertex planar graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Cyril Gavoille , Amaury Jacques

We prove that all $1$-vertex spatial graphs with adequate diagrams have minimal crossing number, and that spatial graph diagrams obtained by replacing vertices and edges of a planar embedded graph by minimal crossing link or spatial graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Erica Flapan , Hugh Howards

Given a plane graph $G$ (i.e., a planar graph with a fixed planar embedding) and a simple cycle $C$ in $G$ whose vertices are mapped to a convex polygon, we consider the question whether this drawing can be extended to a planar…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Tamara Mchedlidze , Martin Nöllenburg , Ignaz Rutter

Given an undirected planar graph G with n vertices and a set S of n points inside a simple polygon P, a point-set embedding of G on S is a planar drawing of G such that each vertex is mapped to a distinct point of S and the edges are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Fatemeh Rajabi-Alni , Alireza Bagheri

Rigidity theory studies the properties of graphs that can have rigid embeddings in a euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ or on a sphere and which in addition satisfy certain edge length constraints. One of the major open problems in this field…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Evangelos Bartzos , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Jan Legerský , Elias Tsigaridas

In this article we present theoretical and computational results on the existence of polyhedral embeddings of graphs. The emphasis is on cubic graphs. We also describe an efficient algorithm to compute all polyhedral embeddings of a given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Gunnar Brinkmann , Thomas Tucker , Nico Van Cleemput

Orthogonal drawings, i.e., embeddings of graphs into grids, are a classic topic in Graph Drawing. Often the goal is to find a drawing that minimizes the number of bends on the edges. A key ingredient for bend minimization algorithms is the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Lukas Barth , Benjamin Niedermann , Ignaz Rutter , Matthias Wolf

A crossing-free straight-line drawing of a graph is monotone if there is a monotone path between any pair of vertices with respect to some direction. We show how to construct a monotone drawing of a tree with $n$ vertices on an $O(n^{1.5})…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Philipp Kindermann , André Schulz , Joachim Spoerhase , Alexander Wolff

Suppose that a polygon $P$ is given as an array containing the vertices in counterclockwise order. We analyze how many vertices (including the index of each of these vertices) we need to know before we can bound $P$, i.e., report a bounded…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Jack Stade , Shuyi Yan , Hanwen Zhang

Orthogonal graph drawing has many applications, e.g., for laying out UML diagrams or cableplans. In this paper, we present a new pipeline that draws multigraphs orthogonally, using few bends, few crossings, and small area. Our pipeline…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Tim Hegemann , Alexander Wolff

A drawing of a graph is greedy if for each ordered pair of vertices u and v, there is a path from u to v such that the Euclidean distance to v decreases monotonically at every vertex of the path. The existence of greedy drawings has been…

A graph drawn in the plane with straight-line edges is called a geometric graph. If no path of length at most $k$ in a geometric graph $G$ is self-intersecting we call $G$ $k$-locally plane. The main result of this paper is a construction…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Gábor Tardos

Research about crossings is typically about minimization. In this paper, we consider \emph{maximizing} the number of crossings over all possible ways to draw a given graph in the plane. Alpert et al. [Electron. J. Combin., 2009] conjectured…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Markus Chimani , Stefan Felsner , Stephen Kobourov , Torsten Ueckerdt , Pavel Valtr , Alexander Wolff

There exist many orthogonal graph drawing algorithms that minimize edge crossings or edge bends, however they produce unsatisfactory drawings in many practical cases. In this paper we present a grid-based algorithm for drawing orthogonal…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Karlis Freivalds , Jans Glagolevs

Given a planar graph $G$ and an integer $b$, OrthogonalPlanarity is the problem of deciding whether $G$ admits an orthogonal drawing with at most $b$ bends in total. We show that OrthogonalPlanarity can be solved in polynomial time if $G$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Emilio Di Giacomo , Giuseppe Liotta , Fabrizio Montecchiani

An embedding of a graph in a book consists of a linear order of its vertices along the spine of the book and of an assignment of its edges to the pages of the book, so that no two edges on the same page cross. The book thickness of a graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Michael A. Bekos , Michael Kaufmann , Fabian Klute , Sergey Pupyrev , Chrysanthi Raftopoulou , Torsten Ueckerdt

Partial edge drawing (PED) is a drawing style for non-planar graphs, in which edges are drawn only partially as pairs of opposing stubs on the respective end-vertices. In a PED, by erasing the central parts of edges, all edge crossings and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Matthias Hummel , Fabian Klute , Soeren Nickel , Martin Nöllenburg