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Planarity Testing is the problem of determining whether a given graph is planar while planar embedding is the corresponding construction problem. The bounded space complexity of these problems has been determined to be exactly Logspace by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Samir Datta , Gautam Prakriya

Simplicial surfaces describe the incidence relations between vertices, edges and faces of triangulated 2-dimensional manifolds in a purely combinatorial way. By considering only the incidences of edges and faces, simplicial surfaces are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Meike Weiß , Alice C. Niemeyer

We show that planar embeddable 3-connected CAD graphs are generically non-soluble. A CAD graph represents a configuration of points on the Euclidean plane with just enough distance dimensions between them to ensure rigidity. Formally, a CAD…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John C. Owen , Stephen C. Power

We consider simplicial complexes that are generated from the binomial random 3-uniform hypergraph by taking the downward-closure. We determine when this simplicial complex is homologically connected, meaning that its zero-th and first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Oliver Cooley , Penny Haxell , Mihyun Kang , Philipp Sprüssel

We say a $d$-dimensional simplicial complex embeds into double dimension if it embeds into the Euclidean space of dimension $2d$. For instance, a graph is planar iff it embeds into double dimension. We study the conditions under which the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Salman Parsa

A generic immersion of a planar graph into the 2-space is said to be knotted if there does not exist a trivial embedding of the graph into the 3-space obtained by lifting the immersion with respect to the natural projection from the 3-space…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Youngsik Huh , Ryo Nikkuni

We investigate families of two-dimensional simplicial complexes defined in terms of vertex decompositions. They include nonevasive complexes, strongly collapsible complexes of Barmak and Miniam and analogues of 2-trees of Harary and Palmer.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Michal Adamaszek

A graph is $H$-free if it has no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H$. We characterize all graphs $H$ for which there are only finitely many minimal non-three-colorable $H$-free graphs. Such a characterization was previously known only in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Maria Chudnovsky , Jan Goedgebeur , Oliver Schaudt , Mingxian Zhong

Whitney's theorem states that every 3-connected planar graph is uniquely embeddable on the sphere. On the other hand, it has many inequivalent embeddings on another surface. We shall characterize structures of a $3$-connected $3$-regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Kengo Enami

Using ideas from shape theory we embed the coarse category of metric spaces into the category of direct sequences of simplicial complexes with bonding maps being simplicial. Two direct sequences of simplicial complexes are equivalent if one…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-24 M. Cencelj , J. Dydak , A. Vavpeti\v\{c} , \v\{Z}. Virk

A circuit double cover of a bridgeless graph is a collection of even subgraphs such that every edge is contained in exactly two subgraphs of the given collection. Such a circuit double cover describes an embedding of the corresponding graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Meike Weiß , Reymond Akpanya , Alice C. Niemeyer

We prove that the problem of deciding whether a 2- or 3-dimensional simplicial complex embeds into $\mathbb{R}^3$ is NP-hard. Our construction also shows that deciding whether a 3-manifold with boundary tori admits an $\mathbb{S}^{3}$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Arnaud de Mesmay , Yo'av Rieck , Eric Sedgwick , Martin Tancer

We prove a topological extension of Dirac's theorem suggested by Gowers in 2005: for any connected, closed surface $\mathscr{S}$, we show that any two-dimensional simplicial complex on $n$ vertices in which each pair of vertices belongs to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Agelos Georgakopoulos , John Haslegrave , Richard Montgomery , Bhargav Narayanan

We show that, given any $n$ and $\alpha$, every embedding of any sufficiently large complete graph in $\mathbb{R}^3$ contains an oriented link with components $Q_1$, ..., $Q_n$ such that for every $i\not =j$, $|\lk(Q_i,Q_j)|\geq\alpha$ and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-01-18 Erica Flapan , Blake Mellor , Ramin Naimi

We study the potentially undecidable problem of whether a given 2-dimensional CW complex can be embedded into $\mathbb{R}^4$. We provide operations that preserve embeddability, including joining and cloning of 2-cells, as well as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Agelos Georgakopoulos , Martin Winter

Whitney proved that 3-connected planar graphs admit a unique embedding on the sphere. In contrast, Enami investigated embeddings of 3-connected cubic planar graphs on non-spherical surfaces with non-negative Euler characteristic. He…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Meike Weiß , Alice C. Niemeyer

Tutte's embedding theorem states that every 3-connected graph without a $K_5$ or $K_{3,3}$ minor (i.e. a planar graph) is embedded in the plane if the outer face is in convex position and the interior vertices are convex combinations of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Marc Alexa

A drawing in the plane ($\mathbb{R}^2$) of a graph $G=(V,E)$ equipped with a function $\gamma: V \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ is \emph{$x$-bounded} if (i) $x(u) <x(v)$ whenever $\gamma(u)<\gamma(v)$ and (ii) $\gamma(u)\leq\gamma(w)\leq…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Radoslav Fulek

It is shown that every knot or link is the set of complex tangents of a 3-sphere smoothly embedded in the three-dimensional complex space. We show in fact that a one-dimensional submanifold of a closed orientable 3-manifold can be realised…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-22 Naohiko Kasuya , Masamichi Takase

This paper introduces a geometric representation of hypergraphs by representing hyperedges as simplices. Building on this framework, we employ homotopy groups to analyze the topological structure of hypergraphs embedded in high-dimensional…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Qiming Fang , Sihong Shao