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Beyond-planarity focuses on the study of geometric and topological graphs that are in some sense nearly-planar. Here, planarity is relaxed by allowing edge crossings, but only with respect to some local forbidden crossing configurations.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Patrizio Angelini , Michael A. Bekos , Michael Kaufmann , Maximilian Pfister , Torsten Ueckerdt

Edge bundling is an important concept heavily used for graph visualization purposes. To enable the comparison with other established near-planarity models in graph drawing, we formulate a new edge-bundling model which is inspired by the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Patrizio Angelini , Michael A. Bekos , Michael Kaufmann , Philipp Kindermann , Thomas Schneck

The definition of $1$-planar graphs naturally extends graph planarity, namely a graph is $1$-planar if it can be drawn in the plane with at most one crossing per edge. Unfortunately, while testing graph planarity is solvable in linear time,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Carla Binucci , Walter Didimo , Fabrizio Montecchiani

In this paper, we show that it is NP-hard to determine whether a given graph admits a min-1-planar drawing. A drawing of a graph is min-$k$-planar if, for every crossing in the drawing, at least one of the two crossing edges involves at…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yuto Okada

A graph is called a $k$-planar unit distance graph if it can be drawn in the plane such that every edge is a unit line segment and is involved in at most $k$ crossings. We investigate $u_k(n)$, the maximum number of edges of such graphs on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Panna Gehér , Dömötör Pálvölgyi , Dániel G. Simon , Géza Tóth

In a \emph{fan-planar drawing} of a graph an edge can cross only edges with a common end-vertex. Fan-planar drawings have been recently introduced by Kaufmann and Ueckerdt, who proved that every $n$-vertex fan-planar drawing has at most…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Carla Binucci , Emilio Di Giacomo , Walter Didimo , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Maurizio Patrignani , Ioannis G. Tollis

We study cross-graph charging schemes for graphs drawn in the plane. These are charging schemes where charge is moved across vertices of different graphs. Such methods have been recently applied to obtain various properties of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-09-04 Micha Sharir , Adam Sheffer

It is shown that every 2-planar graph is quasiplanar, that is, if a simple graph admits a drawing in the plane such that every edge is crossed at most twice, then it also admits a drawing in which no three edges pairwise cross. We further…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Michael Hoffmann , Csaba D. Tóth

We investigate the problem of drawing graphs in 2D and 3D such that their edges (or only their vertices) can be covered by few lines or planes. We insist on straight-line edges and crossing-free drawings. This problem has many connections…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Steven Chaplick , Krzysztof Fleszar , Fabian Lipp , Alexander Ravsky , Oleg Verbitsky , Alexander Wolff

A topological graph is a graph drawn in the plane. A topological graph is $k$-plane, $k>0$, if each edge is crossed at most $k$ times. We study the problem of partitioning the edges of a $k$-plane graph such that each partite set forms a…

In octilinear drawings of planar graphs, every edge is drawn as an alternating sequence of horizontal, vertical and diagonal ($45^\circ$) line-segments. In this paper, we study octilinear drawings of low edge complexity, i.e., with few…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Michael A. Bekos , Martin Gronemann , Michael Kaufmann , Robert Krug

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

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 fan is a set of edges with a single common endpoint. A graph is fan-crossing if it admits a drawing in the plane so that each edge is crossed by edges of a fan. It is fan-planar if, in addition, the common endpoint is on the same side of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Franz J. Brandenburg

We introduce the family of $k$-gap-planar graphs for $k \geq 0$, i.e., graphs that have a drawing in which each crossing is assigned to one of the two involved edges and each edge is assigned at most $k$ of its crossings. This definition is…

A good edge-labelling of a simple graph is a labelling of its edges with real numbers such that, for any ordered pair of vertices (u,v), there is at most one nondecreasing path from u to v. Say a graph is good if it admits a good…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Abbas Mehrabian

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

The concept of $k$-planarity is extensively studied in the context of Beyond Planarity. A graph is $k$-planar if it admits a drawing in the plane in which each edge is crossed at most $k$ times. The local crossing number of a graph is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Tatsuya Gima , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yuto Okada

A 1-plane graph is a graph embedded in the plane such that each edge is crossed at most once. A 1-plane graph is optimal if it has maximum edge density. A red-blue edge coloring of an optimal 1-plane graph $G$ partitions the edge set of $G$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-04 William J. Lenhart , Giuseppe Liotta , Fabrizio Montecchiani

Algorithmic extension problems of partial graph representations such as planar graph drawings or geometric intersection representations are of growing interest in topological graph theory and graph drawing. In such an extension problem, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm , Fabian Klute , Martin Nöllenburg