English

Disjoint edges in geometric graphs

Combinatorics 2022-08-31 v2 Computational Geometry

Abstract

A geometric graph is a graph drawn in the plane so that its vertices and edges are represented by points in general position and straight line segments, respectively. A vertex of a geometric graph is called pointed if it lies outside of the convex hull of its neighbours. We show that for a geometric graph with nn vertices and ee edges there are at least n2(2e/n3)\frac{n}{2}\binom{2e/n}{3} pairs of disjoint edges provided that 2en2e\geq n and all the vertices of the graph are pointed. Besides, we prove that if any edge of a geometric graph with nn vertices is disjoint from at most m m edges, then the number of edges of this graph does not exceed n(1+8m+3)/4n(\sqrt{1+8m}+3)/4 provided that nn is sufficiently large. These two results are tight for an infinite family of graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2111.05425,
  title  = {Disjoint edges in geometric graphs},
  author = {Nikita Chernega and Alexandr Polyanskii and Rinat Sadykov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.05425},
  year   = {2022}
}

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v2: 12 pages, 5 figures. Final version

R2 v1 2026-06-24T07:33:01.955Z