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We show that for any connected graph $G$ with maximum degree $d\ge3$, the spectral gap from $0$ with respect to the adjacency matrix is at most $\sqrt{d-1}$, with equality if and only if $G$ is the incidence graph of a finite projective…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Yuhan Guo , Dong Zhang

In a book embedding, the vertices of a graph are placed on the spine of a book and the edges are assigned to pages, so that edges on the same page do not cross. In this paper, we prove that every $1$-planar graph (that is, a graph that can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Michael A. Bekos , Till Bruckdorfer , Michael Kaufmann , Chrysanthi N. Raftopoulou

An $n$-vertex graph $G$ is weakly $F$-saturated if $G$ contains no copy of $F$ and there exists an ordering of all edges in $E(K_n) \setminus E(G)$ such that, when added one at a time, each edge creates a new copy of $F$. The minimum size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Margarita Akhmejanova , Ilya Vorobyev , Maksim Zhukovskii

An embedding of a graph in a book, called book embedding, consists of a linear ordering of its vertices along the spine of the book and an assignment of its edges to the pages of the book, so that no two edges on the same page cross. The…

The saturation number $\text{sat}(n,\mathcal{F})$ is the minimum number of edges in any graph which does not contain a member of $\mathcal{F}$ as a subgraph, but will if any edge is added. We give a few upper and lower bounds for saturation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Max Aires

We consider straight line drawings of a planar graph $G$ with possible edge crossings. The \emph{untangling problem} is to eliminate all edge crossings by moving as few vertices as possible to new positions. Let $fix(G)$ denote the maximum…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-11-14 Alexander Ravsky , Oleg Verbitsky

It has been recently shown that any graph of genus g>0 can be stochastically embedded into a distribution over planar graphs, with distortion Olog (g+1)) [Sidiropoulos, FOCS 2010]. This embedding can be computed in polynomial time, provided…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Yury Makarychev , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

Twin-width is a newly introduced graph width parameter that aims at generalizing a wide range of "nicely structured" graph classes. In this work, we focus on obtaining good bounds on twin-width $\text{tww}(G)$ for graphs $G$ from a number…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Hugo Jacob , Marcin Pilipczuk

A matching of a graph is a set of edges without common end vertex. A graph is called 1-planar if it admits a drawing in the plane such that each edge is crossed at most once. Recently, Biedl and Wittnebel proved that every 1-planar graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Yuanqiu Huang , Zhangdong Ouyang , Fengming Dong

A spanning tree $T$ of a connected graph $G$ is a subgraph of $G$ that is a tree covers all vertices of $G$. The leaf distance of $T$ is defined as the minimum of distances between any two leaves of $T$. A fractional matching of a graph $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Sizhong Zhou

Partial duality generalizes the fundamental concept of the geometric dual of an embedded graph. A partial dual is obtained by forming the geometric dual with respect to only a subset of edges. While geometric duality preserves the genus of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-18 Iain Moffatt

A connected undirected graph $G = (V,E)$ is lower conformally rigid if uniform edge weights maximize the second smallest Laplacian eigenvalue $\lambda_2(w)$ over all normalized edge weights $w$, and upper conformally rigid if uniform edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Andrew Niu

We show that every labelled planar graph $G$ can be assigned a canonical embedding $\phi(G)$, such that for any planar $G'$ that differs from $G$ by the insertion or deletion of one edge, the number of local changes to the combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jacob Holm , Eva Rotenberg

Given a graph H, we call a graph $\textit{H-free}$ if it does not contain H as a subgraph. The planar Tur\'an number of a graph H, denoted by $ex_{\mathcal{P}}(n, H)$, is the maximum number of edges in a planar H-free graph on n vertices. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Huiqing Liu , Tian Xie , Qin Zhao

A graph is NIC-planar if it admits a drawing in the plane with at most one crossing per edge and such that two pairs of crossing edges share at most one common end vertex. NIC-planarity generalizes IC-planarity, which allows a vertex to be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Christian Bachmaier , Franz J. Brandenburg , Kathrin Hanauer , Daniel Neuwirth , Josef Reislhuber

We discuss the problem of embedding graphs in the plane with restrictions on the vertex mapping. In particular, we introduce a technique for drawing planar graphs with a fixed vertex mapping that bounds the number of times edges bend. An…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-06-05 Taylor Gordon

For a given graph $F$, a graph $G$ is said to be $F$-saturated if $G$ contains no copy of $F$ but for any edge $uv\notin E(G)$, $G+uv$ contains a copy of $F$. The saturation number $sat(n,F)$ is defined as the minimum number of edges among…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Xinghui Zhao , Lihua You , Xiaoxue Zhang

The unit distance embeddability of a graph, like planarity, involves a mix of constraints that are combinatorial and geometric. We construct a unit distance embedding for $H-e$ in the hope that it will lead to an embedding for $H$. We then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-08 Mitchell A. Harris

We investigate the toroidal expanse of an embedded graph G, that is, the size of the largest toroidal grid contained in G as a minor. In the course of this work we introduce a new embedding density parameter, the stretch of an embedded…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Markus Chimani , Petr Hlineny , Gelasio Salazar

Median graphs are connected graphs in which for all three vertices there is a unique vertex that belongs to shortest paths between each pair of these three vertices. In this paper we provide several novel characterizations of planar median…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Carsten R. Seemann , Vincent Moulton , Peter F. Stadler , Marc Hellmuth