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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 $2$-planar if it has local crossing number two, that is, it can be drawn in the plane such that every edge has at most two crossings. A graph is maximal $2$-planar if no edge can be added such that the resulting graph remains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-16 Michael Hoffmann , Meghana M. Reddy

It is shown that every $n$-vertex graph that admits a 2-bend RAC drawing in the plane, where the edges are polylines with two bends per edge and any pair of edges can only cross at a right angle, has at most $20n-24$ edges for $n\geq 3$.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Csaba D. Tóth

In 2007, Ando and Egawa proved a theorem which provides a lower bound on the number of contractible edges preserving $4$-connectedness in $4$-connected graphs. In this paper, we refine their bounds, especially for the $4$-connected plane…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Toshiki Abe , Michitaka Furuya , Raiji Mukae , Shoichi Tsuchiya

We show that if a graph $G$ with $n \geq 3$ vertices can be drawn in the plane such that each of its edges is involved in at most four crossings, then $G$ has at most $6n-12$ edges. This settles a conjecture of Pach, Radoi\v{c}i\'{c},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Eyal Ackerman

For a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, denote by $a(G)$ the number of vertices in the largest induced forest in $G$. The Albertson-Berman conjecture, which has been open since 1979, states that $a(G) \geq \frac{n}{2}$ for every simple planar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Mikhail Makarov

This paper discusses a distance guarding concept on triangulation graphs, which can be associated with distance domination and distance vertex cover. We show how these subjects are interconnected and provide tight bounds for any n-vertex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Santiago Canales , Gregorio Hernández , Mafalda Martins , Inês Matos

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a nonempty family of graphs. A graph $G$ is called $\mathcal{F}$-\textit{free} if it contains no graph from $\mathcal{F}$ as a subgraph. For a positive integer $n$, the \emph{planar Tur\'an number} of $\F$, denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Debarun Ghosh , Ervin Győri , Addisu Paulos , Chuanqi Xiao , Oscar Zamora

The "slope-number" of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of distinct edge slopes in a straight-line drawing of $G$ in the plane. We prove that for $\Delta\geq5$ and all large $n$, there is a $\Delta$-regular $n$-vertex graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Vida Dujmovic' , Matthew Suderman , David R. Wood

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

A \emph{$k$-planar graph} is a graph that can be drawn in the plane such that every edge is crossed at most $k$ times. For $k \leq 4$, Pach and T\'oth proved a bound of $(k+3)(n-2)$ on the total number of edges of a $k$-planar graph, which…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Michael A. Bekos , Michael Kaufmann , Chrysanthi N. Raftopoulou

A dominating set in a graph $G$ is a set $S$ of vertices such that every vertex in $V(G) \setminus S$ is adjacent to a vertex in $S$. A restrained dominating set of $G$ is a dominating set $S$ with the additional restraint that the graph $G…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Boštjan Brešar , Michael A. Henning

We show that any $3$-connected cubic plane graph on $n$ vertices, with all faces of size at most $6$, can be made bipartite by deleting no more than $\sqrt{(p+3t)n/5}$ edges, where $p$ and $t$ are the numbers of pentagonal and triangular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Diego Nicodemos , Matěj Stehlík

We consider drawings of graphs in the plane in which edges are represented by polygonal paths with at most one bend and the number of different slopes used by all segments of these paths is small. We prove that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Kolja Knauer , Bartosz Walczak

Let $G$ be a finite, connected graph and $v$ a vertex of $G$. The average distance and the eccentricity of $v$ in $G$ are defined as the arithmetic mean and the maximum, respectively, of the distances from $v$ to all other vertices of $G$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Peter Dankelmann , Sonwabile Mafunda , Sufiyan Mallu

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

We consider the family of graphs whose vertex set is $\mathbb{Z}^n$ where two vertices are connected by an edge when their $\ell_\infty$-distance is 1. Towards an edge isoperimetric inequality for this graph, we calculate the edge boundary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-13 Ellen Veomett

Chung and Graham [J. London Math. Soc. 1983] claimed to prove that there exists an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with $ \frac{5}{2}n \log_2 n + O(n)$ edges that contains every $n$-vertex tree as a subgraph. Frati, Hoffmann and T\'oth [Combin.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Neel Kaul , Jaehoon Kim , Minseo Kim , David R. Wood

The page number of a directed acyclic graph $G$ is the minimum $k$ for which there is a topological ordering of $G$ and a $k$-coloring of the edges such that no two edges of the same color cross, i.e., have alternating endpoints along the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Paul Jungeblut , Laura Merker , Torsten Ueckerdt

We show that a matchstick graph with $n$ vertices has no more than $3n-c\sqrt{n-1/4}$ edges, where $c=\frac12(\sqrt{12} + \sqrt{2\pi\sqrt{3}})$. The main tools in the proof are the Euler formula, the isoperimetric inequality, and an upper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Jérémy Lavollée , Konrad J. Swanepoel