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We show that deleting an edge of a 3-cycle in an intrinsically knotted graph gives an intrinsically linked graph.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Ramin Naimi , Elena Pavelescu , Hannah Schwartz

We say that a set of pairs of disjoint cycles $\Lambda(G)$ of a graph $G$ is linked if for any spatial embedding $f$ of $G$ there exists an element $\lambda$ of $\Lambda(G)$ such that the $2$-component link $f(\lambda)$ is nonsplittable,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Ryo Nikkuni

For a given spatial graph $\mathcal{G} \subset \mathbb{R}^3$, we would like to find a closed orientable surface $\mathcal{S}$ embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$ in which $\mathcal{G}$ is cellular embedded. However, for general $\mathcal{G}$ this is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Senja Barthel , Fabio Buccoliero

We consider intrinsic linking and knotting in the context of directed graphs. We construct an example of a directed graph that contains a consistently oriented knotted cycle in every embedding. We also construct examples of intrinsically…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Thomas Fleming , Joel Foisy

Simplicial surfaces describe the incidence relations between vertices, edges and faces of triangulated 2-dimensional manifolds in a purely combinatorial way. By considering only the incidences of edges and faces, simplicial surfaces are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Meike Weiß , Alice C. Niemeyer

A (1,{\lambda})-embedded graph is a graph that can be embedded on a surface with Euler characteristic {\lambda} so that each edge is crossed by at most one other edge. A graph G is called {\alpha}-linear if there exists an integral constant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Xin Zhang , Guizhen Liu , Jian-Liang Wu

A parallel minor is obtained from a graph by any sequence of edge contractions and parallel edge deletions. We prove that, for any positive integer k, every internally 4-connected graph of sufficiently high order contains a parallel minor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-12 Carolyn Chun , Guoli Ding , Bogdan Oporowski , Dirk Vertigan

Optimal linear-time algorithms for testing the planarity of a graph are well-known for over 35 years. However, these algorithms are quite involved and recent publications still try to give simpler linear-time tests. We give a simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-23 Jens M. Schmidt

A connected 3-valent plane graph, whose faces are $q$- or 6-gons only, is called a {\em graph $q_n$}. We classify all graphs $4_n$, which are isometric subgraphs of a $m$-hypercube $H_m$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michel Deza , Mathieu Dutour-Sikiric , Sergey Shpectorov

The \emph{reconfiguration graph of the $k$-colourings} of a graph $G$, denoted $\mathcal{R}_k(G)$, is the graph whose vertices are the $k$-colourings of $G$ and two vertices of $\mathcal{R}_k(G)$ are joined by an edge if the colourings of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Manoj Belavadi , Kathie Cameron , Elias Hildred

Feature extraction and dimension reduction for networks is critical in a wide variety of domains. Efficiently and accurately learning features for multiple graphs has important applications in statistical inference on graphs. We propose a…

Applications · Statistics 2021-06-23 Shangsi Wang , Jesús Arroyo , Joshua T. Vogelstein , Carey E. Priebe

Planar Embedding is a drawing of a graph on the plane such that the edges do not intersect each other except at the vertices. We know that testing the planarity of a graph and computing its embedding (if it exists), can efficiently be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Samir Datta , Asif Khan , Anish Mukherjee

The connected graph of degree sequence 3,3,3,1,1,1 is called a net, and the vertices of degree 1 in a net is called its endvertices. Broersma conjectured in 1993 that a 2-connected graph G with no induced K_{1,3} is hamiltonian if every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Shuya Chiba , Jun Fujisawa

Vertex connectivity and edge connectivity are fundamental concepts in graph theory that have been widely studied from both structural and algorithmic perspectives. The focus of this paper is on computing these two parameters for graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Therese Biedl , Prosenjit Bose , Karthik Murali

We define a special case of tree decompositions for planar graphs that respect a given embedding of the graph. We study the analogous width of the resulting decomposition we call the embedded-width of a plane graph. We show both upper…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Glencora Borradaile , Jeff Erickson , Hung Le , Robbie Weber

The vertex connectivity of a graph $G$ is the size of the smallest set of vertices $S$ such that $G \setminus S$ is disconnected. For the class of planar graphs, the problem of vertex connectivity is well-studied, both from structural and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Therese Biedl , Karthik Murali

We study the simultaneous embeddability of a pair of partitions of the same underlying set into disjoint blocks. Each element of the set is mapped to a point in the plane and each block of either of the two partitions is mapped to a region…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Jan Christoph Athenstädt , Tanja Hartmann , Martin Nöllenburg

We consider the Grassmann graphs and dual polar graphs over the same finite field and show that, up to graph automorphism, for every dual polar graph there is the unique isometric embedding in the corresponding Grassmann graph.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Mark Pankov

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the mapping class group of the pair of the 3-sphere and a graph embedded in it to be isomorphic to the topological symmetry group of the embedded graph.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-06-22 Sangbum Cho , Yuya Koda

When all non-edge distances of a graph realized in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ as a {\em bar-and-joint framework} are generically {\em implied} by the bar (edge) lengths, the graph is said to be {\em rigid} in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$. For $d=3$,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Jialong Cheng , Meera Sitharam , Ileana Streinu