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We introduce the \textit{crossing profile} of a drawing of a graph. This is a sequence of integers whose $(k+1)^{\text{th}}$ entry counts the number of edges in the drawing which are involved in exactly $k$ crossings. The first and second…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Isaac Chen , Oriol Solé-Pi

Determining whether there exists a graph such that its crossing number and pair crossing number are distinct is an important open problem in geometric graph theory. We show that $\textit{cr}(G)=O(\mathop{\mathrm{pcr}}(G)^{3/2})$ for every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Oriol Solé Pi

The crossing number of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of pairwise intersections of edges among all drawings of $G$. In this paper, we study the crossing number of $K_{n,n}-nK_2$, $K_n\times P_2$, $K_n\times P_3$ and $K_n\times C_4$.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Yuansheng Yang , Baigong Zheng , Xiaohui Lin , Xirong Xu

The crossing number of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of edge crossings over all drawings of $G$ in the plane. A graph $G$ is $k$-crossing-critical if its crossing number is at least $k$, but if we remove any edge of $G$, its crossing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-22 János Barát , Géza Tóth

Let $\textrm{cr}(G)$ denote the crossing number of a graph $G$. The well-known Zarankiewicz's conjecture (ZC) asserted $\textrm{cr}(K_{m,n})$ in 1954. In 1971, Harborth gave a conjecture (HC) on $\textrm{cr}(K_{x_1,...,x_n})$. HC on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Xiwu Yang , Ni Lu , Xiaodong Chen , Yuansheng Yang

Let $P$ be a set of points in general position in the plane. Join all pairs of points in $P$ with straight line segments. The number of segment-crossings in such a drawing, denoted by $\crg(P)$, is the \emph{rectilinear crossing number} of…

A conjecture by Rafla from 1988 asserts that every simple drawing of the complete graph $K_n$ admits a plane Hamiltonian cycle. It turned out that already the existence of much simpler non-crossing substructures in such drawings is hard to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Helena Bergold , Stefan Felsner , Meghana M. Reddy , Joachim Orthaber , Manfred Scheucher

Given a fixed positive integer $k$, the $k$-planar local crossing number of a graph $G$, denoted by $\text{LCR}_k(G)$, is the minimum positive integer $L$ such that $G$ can be decomposed into $k$ subgraphs, each of which can be drawn in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-09 John Asplund , Thao do , Arran Hamm , Vishesh Jain

Let $\crs(K_n)$ be the minimum number of crossings over all rectilinear drawings of the complete graph on $n$ vertices on the plane. In this paper we prove that $\crs(K_n) < 0.380473\binom{n}{4}+\Theta(n^3)$; improving thus on the previous…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-07 Ruy Fabila-Monroy , Jorge López

The crossing number of a graph is the minimum number of crossings in a drawing of the graph in the plane. Our main result is that every graph $G$ that does not contain a fixed graph as a minor has crossing number $O(\Delta n)$, where $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Vida Dujmović , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Bojan Mohar , David R. Wood

A random geometric graph, $G(n,r)$, is formed by choosing $n$ points independently and uniformly at random in a unit square; two points are connected by a straight-line edge if they are at Euclidean distance at most $r$. For a given…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Ahmad Biniaz , Evangelos Kranakis , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid

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

We consider the number of edge crossings in a random graph drawing generated by projecting a random geometric graph on some compact convex set $W\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 3$, onto a plane. The positions of these crossings form the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Hanna Döring , Lianne de Jonge

A graph is diameter-$k$-critical if its diameter equals $k$ and the deletion of any edge increases its diameter. The Murty-Simon Conjecture states that for any diameter-2-critical graph $G$ of order $n$, $e(G) \leq \lfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Xiaolin Wang , Yanbo Zhang , Xiutao Zhu

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

A star-simple drawing of a graph is a drawing in which adjacent edges do not cross. In contrast, there is no restriction on the number of crossings between two independent edges. When allowing empty lenses (a face in the arrangement induced…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Stefan Felsner , Michael Hoffmann , Kristin Knorr , Irene Parada

Consider a random geometric graph $G$ with a vertex set defined by a Poisson point process with intensity $t>0$ in a convex body. We can generate a drawing of the graph by projecting the construction onto some plane $L$. Choosing different…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Lianne de Jonge , Kinga Nagy

Consider a random graph G in G(n,p) and the graph property: G contains a copy of a specific graph H. (Note: H depends on n; a motivating example: H is a Hamiltonian cycle.) Let q be the minimal value for which the expected number of copies…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jeff Kahn , Gil Kalai

In this paper, we prove that the crossing number of circulant graph $C(3k+1;\{1,k\})$ on the projective plane is $k$ for $k \geq 3$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Hyungkyu Cheon

The crossing number cr(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of crossings in a nondegenerate planar drawing of G. The rectilinear crossing number cr'(G) of G is the minimum number of crossings in a rectilinear nondegenerate planar drawing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-16 Ellen Gethner , Leslie Hogben , Bernard Lidický , Florian Pfender , Amanda Ruiz , Michael Young