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A graph $G$ is nonseparating projective planar if $G$ has a projective planar embedding without a nonsplit link. Nonseparating projective planar graphs are closed under taking minors and are a superclass of projective outerplanar graphs. We…

We examine graphs that contain a non-trivial link in every embedding into real projective space, using a weaker notion of unlink than was used by Flapan, et al. We call such graphs intrinsically linked in projective space. We fully…

We exhibit several families of planar graphs that are minor-minimal intrinsically spherical $3$-linked. A graph is intrinsically spherical 3-linked if it is planar graph that has, in every spherical embedding, a non-split 3-link consisting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Madeleine Burkhart , Andrew Castillo , Jonathan Doane , Joel Foisy , Cristopher Negron

We say that a graph is intrinsically non-trivial if every spatial embedding of the graph contains a non-trivial spatial subgraph. We prove that an intrinsically non-trivial graph is intrinsically linked, namely every spatial embedding of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Ryo Nikkuni

A graph G is intrinsically S^1-linked if for every embedding of the vertices of G into S^1, vertices that form the endpoints of two disjoint edges in G form a non-split link in the embedding. We show that a graph is intrinsically S^1-linked…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-07-25 Chris Cicotta , Joel Foisy , Tom Reilly , Sara Revzi , Ben Wang , Alice Wilson

A graph G is weakly 4-connected if it is 3-connected, has at least five vertices, and for every pair of sets (A,B) with union V(G) and intersection of size three such that no edge has one end in A-B and the other in B-A, one of the induced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Rajneesh Hegde , Robin Thomas

A directed graph $G$ is $\textit{intrinsically linked}$ if every embedding of that graph contains a non-split link $L$, where each component of $L$ is a consistently oriented cycle in $G$. A $\textit{tournament}$ is a directed graph where…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Thomas Fleming , Joel Foisy

A graph $G$ is a non-separating planar graph if there is a drawing $D$ of $G$ on the plane such that (1) no two edges cross each other in $D$ and (2) for any cycle $C$ in $D$, any two vertices not in $C$ are on the same side of $C$ in $D$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Hooman R. Dehkordi , Graham Farr

A graph $G$ is a link-irregular graph if every two distinct vertices of $G$ have non-isomorphic links. The link of a vertex $v$ in $G$ is the subgraph induced by the neighbors of $v$ in $G$. Ali, Chartrand and Zhang [Discussiones…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Alexander Bastien , Omid Khormali

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 say that a graph is intrinsically knotted or completely 3-linked if every embedding of the graph into the 3-sphere contains a nontrivial knot or a 3-component link any of whose 2-component sublink is nonsplittable. We show that a graph…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Ryo Hanaki , Ryo Nikkuni , Kouki Taniyama , Akiko Yamazaki

We announce results about flat (linkless) embeddings of graphs in 3-space. A piecewise-linear embedding of a graph in 3-space is called {\it flat} if every circuit of the graph bounds a disk disjoint from the rest of the graph. We have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Neil Robertson , Paul Seymour , Robin Thomas

A planar graph $G$ is said to be non-separating if there exists an embedding of $G$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$ such that for any cycle $\mathcal{C}\subset G$, all vertices of $G\setminus \mathcal{C}$ are within the same connected component of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Andrei Pavelescu , Elena Pavelescu

We study intrinsically linked graphs where we require that every embedding of the graph contains not just a non-split link, but a link that satisfies some additional property. Examples of properties we address in this paper are: a two…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Thomas Fleming , Alexander Diesl

It is shown that a simple graph which is embeddable in the real projective plane is minimally 3-rigid if and only if it is (3,6)-tight. Moreover the topologically uncontractible embedded graphs of this type are constructible from one of 8…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Eleftherios Kastis , Stephen Power

We construct a graph G such that any embedding of G into R^{3} contains a nonsplit link of two components, where at least one of the components is a nontrivial knot. Further, for any m < n we produce a graph H so that every embedding of H…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Fleming

We show that for any simple non-oriented graph G with at least thirteen vertices either G or its complement is intrinsically linked.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Andrei Pavelescu , Elena Pavelescu

We describe an algorithm that recognizes some (perhaps all) intrinsically knotted (IK) graphs, and can help find knotless embeddings for graphs that are not IK. The algorithm, implemented as a Mathematica program, has already been used by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-10 Jonathan Miller , Ramin Naimi

We call a (not necessarily planar) embedding of a graph $G$ in the plane \emph{sequential} if its vertices lie in $\mathbb Z^2$ and the line segments between adjacent vertices contain no interior integer points. In this note, we prove (i) a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Jackson Autry , Christopher O'Neill

A connected graph $G$ with at least $2m+2n+2$ vertices is said to have property $E(m,n)$ if, for any two disjoint matchings $M$ and $N$ of size $m$ and $n$ respectively, $G$ has a perfect matching $F$ such that $M\subseteq F$ and $N\cap…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-04 Qiuli Li , Heping Zhang
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