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For planar graphs, it is well known that high connectivity implies a Hamiltonian cycle and hence any 4-connected planar graph has a near-perfect matching. Nevertheless, whether 6-connected 1-planar graphs admit near-perfect matchings…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Licheng Zhang Yuanqiu Huang Zhangdong Ouyang

We investigate the problem of constructing planar drawings with few bends for two related problems, the partially embedded graph problem---to extend a straight-line planar drawing of a subgraph to a planar drawing of the whole graph---and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-10-31 Timothy M. Chan , Fabrizio Frati , Carsten Gutwenger , Anna Lubiw , Petra Mutzel , Marcus Schaefer

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

Every finite graph admits a \emph{simple (topological) drawing}, that is, a drawing where every pair of edges intersects in at most one point. However, in combination with other restrictions simple drawings do not universally exist. For…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Michael Hoffmann , Chih-Hung Liu , Meghana M. Reddy , Csaba D. Tóth

The crossing number of a graph $G$ denotes the minimum number of crossings in any planar drawing of $G$. In this short note, we confirm a long-standing conjecture posed by Pach, Spencer, and T\'oth over 25 years ago, establishing an optimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Kaizhe Chen , Jie Ma

We generalize the notions of flippable and simultaneously flippable edges in a triangulation of a set S of points in the plane to so-called \emph{pseudo-simultaneously flippable edges}. Such edges are related to the notion of convex…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Michael Hoffmann , Micha Sharir , Adam Sheffer , Csaba D. Tóth , Emo Welzl

We study the \emph{geometric $k$-colored crossing number} of complete graphs $\overline{\overline{\text{cr}}}_k(K_n)$, which is the smallest number of monochromatic crossings in any $k$-edge colored straight-line drawing of $K_n$. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Benedikt Hahn , Bettina Klinz , Birgit Vogtenhuber

The crossing number ${\mbox {cr}}(G)$ of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is the smallest number of edge crossings over all drawings of $G$ in the plane. For any $k\ge 1$, the $k$-planar crossing number of $G$, ${\mbox {cr}}_k(G)$, is defined as the…

A plane drawing of a graph is {\em cylindrical} if there exist two concentric circles that contain all the vertices of the graph, and no edge intersects (other than at its endpoints) any of these circles. The {\em cylindrical crossing…

A $ k $-page book drawing of a graph $ G $ is a drawing of $ G $ on $ k $ halfplanes with common boundary $ l $, a line, where the vertices are on $ l $ and the edges cannot cross $ l $. The $ k $-page book crossing number of the graph $ G…

A straight-line drawing of a graph $G$ is a mapping which assigns to each vertex a point in the plane and to each edge a straight-line segment connecting the corresponding two points. The rectilinear crossing number of a graph $G$,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Jacob Fox , Janos Pach , Andrew Suk

We initiate the study of Simultaneous Graph Embedding with Fixed Edges in the beyond planarity framework. In the QuaSEFE problem, we allow edge crossings, as long as each graph individually is drawn quasiplanar, that is, no three edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Patrizio Angelini , Henry Förster , Michael Hoffmann , Michael Kaufmann , Stephen Kobourov , Giuseppe Liotta , Maurizio Patrignani

Let $ex(n, P)$ be the maximum possible number of ones in any 0-1 matrix of dimensions $n \times n$ that avoids $P$. Matrix $P$ is called minimally non-linear if $ex(n, P) = \omega(n)$ but $ex(n, P') = O(n)$ for every strict subpattern $P'$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-04 P. A. CrowdMath

We study the maximum number of straight-line segments connecting $n$ points in convex position in the plane, so that each segment intersects at most $k$ others. This question can also be framed as the maximum number of edges of an outer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Maximilian Pfister

The bend-number b(G) of a graph G is the minimum k such that G may be represented as the edge intersection graph of a set of grid paths with at most k bends. We confirm a conjecture of Biedl and Stern showing that the maximum bend-number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-16 Daniel Heldt , Kolja Knauer , Torsten Ueckerdt

We consider upward-planar layered drawings of directed graphs, i.e., crossing-free drawings in which each edge is drawn as a y-monotone curve going upward from its tail to its head, and the y-coordinates of the vertices are integers. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Patrizio Angelini , Sabine Cornelsen , Giordano Da Lozzo , Fabrizio Frati , Philipp Kindermann , Ignaz Rutter , Johannes Zink

An outerstring graph is an intersection graph of curves that lie in a common half-plane and have one endpoint on the boundary of that half-plane. We prove that the class of outerstring graphs is $\chi$-bounded, which means that their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Alexandre Rok , Bartosz Walczak

We study $c$-crossing-critical graphs, which are the minimal graphs that require at least $c$ edge-crossings when drawn in the plane. For every fixed pair of integers with $c\ge 13$ and $d\ge 1$, we give first explicit constructions of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Drago Bokal , Zdeněk Dvořák , Petr Hliněný , Jesús Leaños , Bojan Mohar , Tilo Wiedera

A drawing of a graph is $k$-plane if no edge is crossed more than $k$ times. In this paper we study saturated $k$-plane drawings with few edges. This are $k$-plane drawings in which no edge can be added without violating $k$-planarity. For…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Fabian Klute , Irene Parada

In a drawing of a clustered graph vertices and edges are drawn as points and curves, respectively, while clusters are represented by simple closed regions. A drawing of a clustered graph is c-planar if it has no edge-edge, edge-region, or…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Patrizio Angelini , Giordano Da Lozzo , Giuseppe Di Battista , Fabrizio Frati , Maurizio Patrignani , Vincenzo Roselli